Re: No ifconfig
On Monday 21 August 2017 14:05:48 Christian Seiler wrote:
> On 08/21/2017 07:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I'll have to study up on this "binding" and how its done.
>
> Note that that's something a program can do if it wants to, but not
> something you can generically configure (though individual programs
> might offer you configuration options for this), and most programs
> that make outgoing connections don't bind the outgoing socket
> because they don't care about which IP their packets originate from
> and are happy to use the OS's defaults.
>
> In case you want a pointer on how this works from a programming
> perspective, I can always recommend Richard Stevens's book UNIX
> Network Programming (_the_ book about this topic), and the manpage
> of the bind syscall (section 2; man 2 bind) is also a possible
> starting point.
>
> Regards,
> Christian
Thank you Christian. I am up to my lower jaw in other commitments till
much later today before I can follow up on the latter.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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