Re: question about sockets

From: David Schwartz (davids_at_webmaster.com)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:12:01 -0700

"Daniel Munzinger" <bender316@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d42aj2$j9i$05$1@news.t-online.com...

> David Schwartz schrieb:

>> How the right socket structure is found is protocol-dependent. For
>> TCP, for example, it's based on the source IP, destination IP, source
>> port, and destination port.

> Ok thanks.
>
> But does someone know how sockets with AF_PACKET are managed?

    The application registers a filter that tells the kernel what packets it
wants and the kernel checks all packets against the filter. See
net/core/filter.c and net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux source tree.

    DS

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