Re: How do I get my own IP address?
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Sep 21, 2009
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Eight computers, each with onboard 10/100 lan and one pci 10/100/1000 lan card. The 100lan goes to a 24port 100switch which also goes to the rest of the house and the internet. The 1000lan pci cards go to a 1000lan switch. This way, the 8 can talk amongst themselves really fast and i don't need to buy a 24port 100/1000 for the entire house. And i can use different filter rules in each switch. So how to tell Eu code which nic to use, based on that code's purpose?
I believe the answer is to use socket:bind, even though it's listed as 'server only.' I say this based upon:
Excerpted from the accepted answer (the one with a check mark):
So how can a client choose what NIC to use? A client can also choose to call bind() if it so desires, after socket() and before connect(). Usually this isn't done simply because connect() will automatically bind an unbound socket in a way that enables access via any NIC (which is usually the desired behaviour), but this auto-binding can be turned off by calling bind() explicitly. In this case, you should specify 0 for the port number to have the OS choose a random port number for you.
Matt
