Hi
Thank you I will let you know if it works if you want me to but it will not be
until Monday now.
Thank you
Ben
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 19:02, Lawrence Statton wrote:
> > Assuming context of: Modern unix-or-unix-like-system.
> >
> > There is no portable way to force the network stack to prefer a given
> > interface at the client-application level. A call to connect(3) in
> > the library will select the near endpoint based on the destination
> > IP-addr.
>
> Mea culpa ... A few minutes of experimentation allowed me to prove
> myself wrong.
>
> Even client code can call bind() to prefer a source endpoint...
>
> search through perlipc for the trivial TCP client and add the
> following line:
>
> bind(SOCK, sockaddr_in((0, inet_aton('192.234.345.456')))
>
> || die "bind: $!";
>
> between the calls to socket() and connect().
>
> Obviously you'll need to replace that bogus IP-addr with the ip-addr
> of your local interface.
>
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> Computer software consists of only two components: ones and
> zeros, in roughly equal proportions. All that is required is to
> sort them into the correct order.
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