Beginners Guide to Sockets

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Beginners Guide to Sockets

• What is Socket Programming ?
• What this function socketpair() does?
• What this function socket() does?
• What this function bind() does?
• What this function connect() does?
• What this function sendto() does?
• What this function recvfrom() does?
• Code Sample: How to disposing of a Socket ?
• How Sockets can be used to write client-server applications using a connection-oriented client-server technique ?
• Code Sample: How to make a Socket a Listen-only Connection Endpoint - listen()
• Code Sample: Connection Establishment by Server - accept()
• Code Sample:Data Transfer over Connected Sockets - send() and recv()
• Code Sample:A Connection-Oriented Example - listen(), accept()
• What is the IP Address ?
• What is Network Host Names?
• What is the /etc/hosts File?
• How to Selecte a Service Port?
• How to Put a Host Program Address Together?
• How to finding a Machine Address?
• Code Sample:Routines for converting data between a host's internal representation and Network Byte Order
• Code Sample:Network Address Conversion Routines
• Code Sample:Server Source Listing
• Code Sample: Client Source Listing