Setting to Local IP

[tal0n]

Ohh I am embarassed to ask this but say there is a specific IP address that I want my server to connect to how do I set it to that. I want to set it to 127.0.0.1 to test but I have never needed to set it to a specific IP because I have always used INADDR_ANY.

[RobSeace]

You mean you want to bind() to a specific IP? Well, just fill in
that IP in the same place you normally fill in INADDR_ANY...
Eg: for 127.0.0.1, you can just do:


sa.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_LOOPBACK);


Or, for other arbitrary addresses, you can use inet_pton() or
inet_aton() or inet_addr(), or etc. to convert the IP from string
format to raw format to use...

[tal0n]

Thank you very much Rob. You are very helpful to me, thanks.