PeerMessage.IPAddressNIC Property

Sets/Returns the IP Address of a Network Interface Card (NIC) to receive unsolicited messages on.

Property Value

Dotted-decimal string (e.g "192.168.1.4")

Remarks

This property is useful when you have multiple network cards in your PC and you want to receive unsolicited messages on specific network cards.  Setting this property to an empty string ("") will receive unsolicited messages on any installed network card (default).

Changing this property after the Listen method is called will have no affect.

Exceptions

Example

VB
 Try
   ' *******************************
   ' * initialize PeerMessage class
   Dim peerMsg as New PeerMessage()
   ' *******************************
   ' * use NIC with IP Address
   peerMsg.IPAddressNIC = "192.168.1.4"
   ' *******************************
   ' * listen for unsolicited messages
   peerMsg.Listen()
 Catch ex As System.Exception
   Console.WriteLine(ex.Message)
 End Try
   
 C#
 try
 {
   ///////////////////////////////////
   // initialize controller class
   PeerMessage peerMsg = new PeerMessage();
   ///////////////////////////////////
   // use NIC with IP address
   peerMsg.IPAddressNIC = "192.168.1.4";
   //////////////////////////////////
   // listen for unsolicited messages
   peerMsg.Listen();
 }
 catch(System.Exception ex)
 {
   Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
 }    

See Also

Protocol | Listen