HTTP through multiple NICs

Gardiner, Geoff ggardiner at accelrys.com
Mon Jul 16 04:11:03 EDT 2001


I'm writing test programs to emulate multiple clients. The word 'bind' is
the key that I hadn't worked out. Thank you.

Geoff 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Holden [mailto:sholden at holdenweb.com]
Sent: 13 July 2001 16:51
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: HTTP through multiple NICs
...
You don't say whether you are writing HTTP clients, servers, or both.
Generally speaking, on any well-behaved TCP/IP platform (i.e. at least
Windows and Linux), the network layer will direct client traffic out on the
correct NIC to route it to the destination. For servers, just use an address
of "" and the server will bind to all interfaces.
...





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