Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> writes: >> 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. Actually Linux has kernel private sockets for ICMP. Very old Linux didnt, but it required ugly special cases in the transmit path, so it was removed. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
