Is there a way I can tell a process before it starts up or after it starts up which IP address to use on Windows?

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Is there a way I can tell a process before it starts up or after it starts up which IP address to use on Windows?

I can program in C# so if there are any .NET classes available to reassigning IP addresses or if there is a command line operation for changing the IP address of a given process, that is what I think I'm looking for.

I'm doing some automated browser testing and I want to have requests coming to my site from different IP addresses. My web server has 15 IP addresses assigned to it so I want to have the browser make requests from a different IP address on each request. Or I want to be able to open multiple instance of a browser and have each instance use a different IP.

You can set the BindIPEndPointDelegate property of the ServicePoint class to specify the local IP address to use for a connection.

John Saunders 2009-03-23 02:10:25

Now, what exactly was wrong with this answer? If you don't tell me, I can hardly be expected to do better next time!

John Saunders 2009-03-23 02:29:31

Looks like essentially the right answer to me (I'll vote it back up). You set the IP address of your socket by changing its binding, that's basic IP socket stuff. OP needs to research sockets.

sipwiz 2009-03-23 02:35:14

@sipwz: if that was the OP downvoting, and if that was the problem. I wish downvoters would give a clue about the reason for the downvote, as I have no slightest guess without one.

John Saunders 2009-03-23 09:43:32

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I read about this today: Why cloud-based load testing is a killer app

You can use a cloud service (like Amazon's) to do load-testing by bringing up a large group of servers for a short period of time to test out your site.

Assaf Lavie 2009-03-23 02:48:57

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