From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Masoud Sharbiani Subject: Re: Does a forwarded packet has a local socket with it? Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:06:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1113847575.19942.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050418140348.33642.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: masouds@masoud.ir Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jamal , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Park Lee In-Reply-To: <20050418140348.33642.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 07:03 -0700, Park Lee wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 at 08:03, jamal wrote: > > simple answer: no > > Thank you very much. > > Still, Does a forwarded packet also have no any kernel > socket with it? i.e. Is a forwarded packet not > associated with any socket at all? > No. > When the forwarded packet arrived at its destination > machine, is there any socket associated with the > packet on the destination machine? It better be :-) Otherwise, it could be ignored or just refused (as in connection refused). > > Thanks again. > > Best Regards, > Park Lee > > > cheers, Masoud -- Masoud Sharbiani