please bind my socket

[iwanttolearnc]

the usual practice is to use connect() for client and let the os select the port ..etc. but i have two network cards and hence two ip addresses. i want to have control over which ip my communication occurs. how can it be done.

can i try a bind() to the ip and port i desire and follow it with a connect() or is there some other way

[snaphat]

sockaddr_in service;
service.sin_family = AF_INET;
service.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr("192.168.0.4");
service.sin_port=htons(995);

//You would specify the IP address where it is in the example

[EDIT]Actually I realize my post doesn't apply.

[joe_bruin]

the BSD socket interface (or their derivative, Winsock) does not allow you to choose the outgoing IP or interface for connect(). It is up to the OS to choose the best route. There may be system-specific ways of doing this (perhaps some ioctl supported on your OS), but there is no general solution.