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To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
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Subject: Re: Q: programming sockets source address? 
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 20:07:18 -0800
From: Terry Braun <tab@talking.com>
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Your message dated: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:40:46 PST
>
>> So far, my initial attempts to use bind() before connect() have been a 
>> wash, as bind returns an errno of EADDRNOTAVAIL, regardless of which 
>> address I'm using.  I was under the impression that bind could be used 
>> before a connect to set the source address.  Is this wrong?  Is there a 
>> correct way to do this (needs to be portable to Linux)?
>
I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but if you want to listen on
a particular socket on you local machine, say on port 1520, this code
will work-

        bindname.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
	bindname.sin_family = AF_INET;
	bindname.sin_port = htons(1520);
	n = bind(sock, &bindname, sizeof(bindname));
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Terry Braun                  tab@talking.com
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