[Live-devel] live-devel Digest, Vol 157, Issue 2 - Multiple NICs

[Warren Young]

On Dec 6, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Weber, Patrick <Patrick.Weber at iecinfrared.com> wrote:
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> Clearly I *could* do what has been suggested from within my application (the top layer is C#/.NET, so the System.Web assembly has everything needed)

Not according to this SO answer:

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7333764/

You may be confusing network stack routing with ASP.NET routes.  Very much not the same thing.

> it would be so much nicer to just tell Live555 which NIC to use - either by IP or MAC address

You may be able to play some games with bind() calls way down in the inner socket handling layers of Live555, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

You’re asking us to help you second-guess an incorrect network stack routing setup instead of configuring it correctly.

> instead of allowing Live555 to infer the NIC based on routing settings.

Live555 infers nothing.  It gives the packets to the network stack, and the network stack sends them out the network interface it decides is most appropriate based on the routing configuration.

Go read Stevens or Quinn.