Method Connect

Connect(NetworkEndpoint)

Establish a new connection to the given endpoint. Note that this only starts establishing the new connection. From there it will either succeeds (a Connect event will pop on the connection) or fail (a Disconnect event will pop on the connection) at a later time.

Declaration

public NetworkConnection Connect(NetworkEndpoint endpoint)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
NetworkEndpoint	endpoint	Endpoint to connect to.

Returns

Type	Description
NetworkConnection	New connection object, or a default-valued object on failure.

Remarks

Establishing a new connection normally requires the driver to be bound (e.g. with the Bind(NetworkEndpoint) method), but if that's not the case when calling this method, the driver will be implicitly bound to the appropriate wildcard address. This is a behavior similar to BSD sockets, where calling connect automatically binds the socket to an ephemeral port.