What is the difference in these two methods : Socket.bind() , Socket.connect()

[Esmaeil Ashrafi]

Actually i cant find out what does the method bind() exactly do ?
I read the documentation, and until yet whenever i wrote a client/server application, i simply did below steps :

 Socket socket = new Socket(url, port);
...   

for example in a client.
And i know if use the constructor : Socket(); (that is without the destination address specifications), i can use the method connect(endPoint), but what does the bind() method do, or which situation it applies ?
I also read "The Java Tutorials" in section "what is a network interface" and at the point :

  NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("bge0");
  Enumeration nifAddresses = nif.getInetAddresses();

  Socket soc = new java.net.Socket();
  soc.bind(nifAddresses.nextElement());
  soc.connect(new InetSocketAddress(address, port));  

encountered with the question "Waht does the bind() method do here ?"

Thanks in advance

[Rob Spoor]

Each socket has two end points - one on the local machine and one on the remote machine. connect() creates the connection with the remote machine, bind() creates the connection with the local machine. If you omit the call to bind() the socket will get an unspecified local end point.

[Esmaeil Ashrafi]

Rob Prime wrote:Each socket has two end points - one on the local machine and one on the remote machine. connect() creates the connection with the remote machine, bind() creates the connection with the local machine. If you omit the call to bind() the socket will get an unspecified local end point.

Very good
And :

if i omit to bind() my socket to a "local address,local port",does then the InetSocketaddress specified by local underlying system, determinable by the remote endPoint ?

[Rob Spoor]

It will use one of the local network cards (probably the first one) and a port that is determined by the operating system (possibly random, I have no idea). The local address is in no way related to the remote address - other than the fact that they share a socket connection between them.

[Esmaeil Ashrafi]

Rob Prime wrote:It will use one of the local network cards (probably the first one) and a port that is determined by the operating system (possibly random, I have no idea). The local address is in no way related to the remote address - other than the fact that they share a socket connection between them.

Thank you
But right away, i read the Socket documentations and there are two method there :
Socket.getInetAddress()
and
Socket.getPort()
so we can have these lines of code where implementing a ServerSocket :

  Socket sock = (new ServerSocket()).accept(); 
// and printing the remote IP address and port number:
Sysem.out.println("remote IP: " + sock.getInetAddress() +"\nremote port: " + sock.getPort()); 

Do you confirm ?

[Rob Spoor]

I would say those methods are what you need to get the remote address and port, yes. And to really confirm it you could test it of course.