Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs
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Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I open a socket to a remote machine, and that socket binds to a
> particular interface, right? How does the socket decide what to
> bind to? Presumably the socket libraries are fairly portable,
> right?
- From a socket-using program's point of view you just choose an IP
(which afaik you have to find out yourself) to bind to, or let the OS
choose one for you by not specifying (or with IN_ADDR_ANY or
something...). You don't really deal with a list of IPs or interfaces
(at least, I never have...), you just call socket(), bind() and
connect() without ever knowing which IPs are on which interfaces or
anything like that.
hth
- -ol
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I will live forever, or die trying.
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