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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ICSI.Berkeley.EDU!faerber From: faerber@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Johannes Faerber) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: socket(2)-Problem under FreeBSD Date: 29 Sep 1994 23:40:23 GMT Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <36fj97$can@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: icsib86.icsi.berkeley.edu I try to transmit UDP-packets via my SLIP connection but I can't bind a socket and thus only send packets, not receive them. I use: struct sockaddr_in sin; [...] hp = gethostbyname(hostname); [...] s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); [...] sin.sin_family = AF_INET; sin.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; sin.sin_port = htons(port); bcopy(hp->h_addr, &sin.sin_addr, hp->h_length); [...] bind(s, &sin, sizeof(sin)); [...] At compile time I get a warning for sendto, recvfrom and bind like "passing arg 2 of 'bind' from incompatible pointer type". Even so, my send-program works fine but the receiveprogram tells "bind: Can't assign requested address" and won't start. What did I miss? The same code works for SunOs 4.1.3. What do I have to do to make that thing run? Any help will be appreciated, Johannes --------------------------------------------------------------------- Can I pay my VISA bill with my MasterCard?