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From: "Sameer" <sameer@dlink.co.in>
Subject: linux icmp: Why socket and inode are allocated?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:07:46 +0530
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hi,
I am currently studying linux ICMP implementation
In that i find there a socket and inode data structures being initialized=
..
later in the icmp_init function it is said that we do not wish this socke=
t
to see the incoming packets..
So why a socket and an inode structures are used for icmp?

Thanks and Regards,

$@M=A3=A3R!
Sameer Kelkar.
D-Link (India) Ltd.
Bangalore
India.