[zeromq-dev] Bind to local ip address

[Martin Sustrik]

Hi Fredrik,

> I've started to make a patch to be able to bind to a local ip address
> when using zmq_connect / zmq_bind. I need this since I have a bunch of
> ip addresses on the machines that I will use 0mq on.
>
> It's only a few lines in tcp_connecter.cpp to be able to do this. Have
> tested locally and verified with $netstat -tn to see that i actually
> works. (The hole patchfile is only 31 lines).

Nice!

> However, I don't have the knowledge for make the changes that's needed
> to the api to add an additionally parameter for the functions
> zmq_connect and zmq_bind.

What about using PGM-like format for the address:

zmq_connect (s, "tcp://eth0;192.168.0.111:5555");

Martin