Subject: Re: Must every packet have a creating socket? (was Re: Does a forwarded packet has a local socket with it?)

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:20:04 -0700

> 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.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Park Lee
> 
> 
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