From: Walton Hoops <walton@...>
Date: 2010-03-30T22:45:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Bind NICs to Mechanize

On 3/29/2010 9:26 PM, John Yuan wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I may shooting a wrong question, but I saw the same question here that
> left unanswered and gone 60 days more, so I want to raise it once again.
>
>  I have 3 NIFs :
>
>   1.　PPP1 (111.111.111.111)：PPTP to VPN
> 　2.　eth2 (192.168.0.2)　　：LAN
> 　3.　ppp3 (333.333.333.333)：PPPoE to ASDL
>
>  and want to bind a specific interface to Mechanize agent somehow like :
>
>   agent.bind(Socket.sockaddr_in(80, "111.111.111.111"))
> 　agent.bind(Socket.sockaddr_in(80, "192.168.0.2"))
> 　agent.bind(Socket.sockaddr_in(80, "333.333.333.333"))
>
> like the way Socket does. But I haven't have any luck yet.
>
> Did anyone try yet or shouldn't expect Mechanize package working in this
> way?
>
> any suggestion would be appreciated !!
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>   
It doesn't work that way.  Mechanize is a client, not a server.  The NIC
used is decided by the destination IP and the routes in your Operating
System. Only server sockets can be bound to one or more IPs.