Arun

• Jul 21st, 2005

 

A method of communication between two processes. A socket is an identifier that the application uses to uniquely identify an end point of communications. The user associates a protocol address with the socket by associating a socket address with the socket.

Skant

• Jul 18th, 2006

 

Socket is composed of source/dest. ip address source/dest. port no. and the protocol used at layer 4.