I have same network cards in computer. All cards has identical IP. I need to bind socket to specific card. In linux I can use flag SO_BINDTODEVICE. How I can do this in windows.
P.S. This needed for UDP sockets.
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I have same network cards in computer. All cards has identical IP. I need to bind socket to specific card. In linux I can use flag SO_BINDTODEVICE. How I can do this in windows.
P.S. This needed for UDP sockets.
I answered a similar question here: Using a specific network interface for a socket in windows
AFIK: in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 IP4 I believe you can’t, but for IP6 you can. And for Windows Vista and Windows 2008 you can (except for certain circumstances).
Hope that helps