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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
