curl-users
Re: Bind to a specific source port?
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:08:04 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:08:04 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Khoa Nguyen wrote:
> I would like cURL to bind to a specific source port. The command line
> doesn't seem to have an option for source port.
Neither does the library. You can make it bind the local connection end to a
specific IP address, but that's it.
> The reason I want to do this is that I can use iptables at the next-hop
> machine to SNAT source ports to several source IP addresses to simulate
> several clients. Any ideas how to accomplish this?
It will require a modification of libcurl to add such a feature, and a command
line switch added that would enable that feature.
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