From: web2ed@... (Edward Wilson)
Date: 2003-01-06T01:58:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Using TCPServer with multiple network cards

I tried this before but it doesn't work.

TCPServer binds to the first network card e.g. eth0; Java has this
same problem.  Changing the "ip string" doesn't change the network
card...at least from my experience.

The problem I'm having is that I can only bind to the first network
card in my hardware array.  I have to reassign IPs to my hardware;
what I want to be able to do is pass different parrameters to
TCPServer or perhaps it's super class and  override TCPServer to be
able to bind to `any of several network cards' I may have configured
on a given machine.  Each network card has it's own IP, but like I
said, TCPServer appears to have a limitation of only being able to see
the first network card, so it only works if the IP you pass it is the
*same* as your first network card.

--
ed


Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<20030104232156.GA9436@uk.tiscali.com>...
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:56:30AM +0900, Edward Wilson wrote:
> > How can one use TCPServer with more than one network card; e.g. how
> > can one choose which network card to bind to?
> 
> It's the first argument to the constructor...
> 
> server = TCPServer.new('192.168.0.1', port)
> 
> See:  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_network.html