I have a *IX system with 2 NICs. I have a program that allows me to make a connection to an outside IP address using a socket. This works great except I need to bind to one of my local NICs so that I can go out over the VPN. For example: I have 192.168.199.100 and 200.172.15.40 as my IP addresses for the NICs. The VPN connections ALL use the 192.168.199.100 address but the *IX system will grab whichever NIC is not busy and most of the time it is the 200.172.15.40 address and I can not make a connection to the other side using that address. Without re-writing the code to use more update to date modules does anyone know of a way to get "use Socket"; to bind to a LOCAL IP address. Below is my "connecting" code that the program currently uses. 
    $them = $opt_h;
    $iaddr = inet_aton($remote);
    $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);
    $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');

    socket(SOCKET, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket error:
+ $!";

    print STDOUT "connecting...\n\n";
    if (connect(SOCKET,$paddr)) {
         print STDOUT "Connected to host: $them, port: $port\n\n";
    } else {
         die "socket error: $!";
    }

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In reply to bind a client connection by lindseyprog

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