From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Horman Subject: Re: Does a forwarded packet has a local socket with it? Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:04:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20050418180403.GD31824@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com> References: <20050418140348.33642.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jamal , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Park Lee Content-Disposition: inline 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, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:03:47AM -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? Not on the fowarding machine, no. There is no need for a socket, since a socket just defines an endpoint for a connection, or a data source or sink. A device that forwards a packet has no need to define a socket, since its not sourcing or sinking data, its just forwarding it. > > When the forwarded packet arrived at its destination > machine, is there any socket associated with the > packet on the destination machine? > Sure, at the originating host, and at the receiving host. Neil > Thanks again. > > Best Regards, > Park Lee > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! > http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide > -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman@redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/