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
