How to set a socket's Ethernet adapter?

[masnu]

Is there any way to specify which Ethernet adapter a socket connetion uses? I'm creating the socket as follows: SOCKET Socket; int opt_on = 1; // Create socket Socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if(Socket == INVALID_SOCKET) return - 1; // Set socket reuse option if( setsockopt( Socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (char*)&opt_on, sizeof (opt_on) ) == SOCKET_ERROR ) { return -1; } //__if( setsockopt(...) == SOCKET_ERROR )__ // Set client properties cliAddr.sin_family = AF_INET; cliAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr( "169.254.148.9" ); cliAddr.sin_port = htons( 4200 ); // Connect to server if ( connect( Socket, (struct sockaddr *)&cliAddr, sizeof(cliAddr) ) == SOCKET_ERROR ) { GetSocketError(); return -1; } //__if ( connect(...) == SOCKET_ERROR )__ The connection will always try to use the first available network adapter, which is not necessarily the one connected to the requested port. Is there a way to change this without having to specify different domains? Thanks.

[Mark Salsbery]

masnu wrote:

Is there any way to specify which Ethernet adapter a socket connetion uses?

For a local socket, that's what the bind() function is for.

masnu wrote:

The connection will always try to use the first available network adapter, which is not necessarily the one connected to the requested port.

I'm confused here. The port you specified is for the destination address, not the local address. Again, use bind() to bind a socket to the adapter with the specific address before calling connect(). Mark

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[cmk]

Been a while, but if i recall correctly, - use GetAdaptersInfo to walk through the adapters - for each adapter you can walk its list of (local) IP addresses - create the socket then bind to the local address for the adapter you want - after the bind connect to the desired peer

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