From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Park Lee <parklee_sel@yahoo.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>, jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>,
linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Must every packet have a creating socket? (was Re: Does a forwarded packet has a local socket with it?)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:20:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4266FFC4.6020305@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050420172944.69275.qmail@web51501.mail.yahoo.com>
> Can I think that every packet (e.g. IP packet) must
> have a corresponding creating socket? (i.e. Must every
> packet be created by a socket?)
No. ICMP messages come to mind - although I _suppose_ that since those are in
response to other traffic, you could claim it was in response to something sent
from a "socket" or "endpoint" - depends on how far away you consider it to still
be from a socket.
> Is there any other way to originate a packet?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Park Lee
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 17:29 Must every packet have a creating socket? (was Re: Does a forwarded packet has a local socket with it?) Park Lee
2005-04-21 1:20 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2005-04-22 11:39 ` Must every packet have a creating socket? Andi Kleen
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2005-04-21 13:05 Must every packet have a creating socket? (was Re: Does a forwarded packet has a local socket with it?) Park Lee
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