you bind to a port & ip addr (or default) since no ipaddr can be assigned to 2 phys interfaces the point about card # is moot, check out the stevens books if you're serious about tcp/ip coding on *nix
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>wrote: > I have been told that in the MS (XP, W7, etc), when a system has more than > 1 network card, then we have to specify the card number to which we want to > address a socket command, a connect, etc. After all, each card could be on > a different systemÂ. > > What about a linux system with multiple TCP/IP ports? Do we have to do > likewise? > Nowhere with the samples for server or client, have I seen that we specify > the card number (eth0, eth1, etc.) > > Did I miss something that is really different from the MS implementation > and the Linux implementaton? > *------------------ > > * > > Regards > * > Leslie > * > *Mr. Leslie Satenstein > * > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > -- ___..___........__.......__ ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__| ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi
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