From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.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
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> 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.
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> Best Regards,
> Park Lee
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