I've been trying to wrap my head around how sockets work, and I've been trying to pick apart some sample code I found at this page for a very simple client socket program. Since this is …

174 I’m running a Debian Squeeze web server. I’ve installed memcached on it, and configured memcached to listen on a Unix domain socket (at /tmp/memcached.sock), as it only needs to …

I don't know exactly what socket means. A server runs on a specific computer and has a socket that is bound to a specific port number. The server just waits, listening to the socket for a client …

A UNIX domain socket has similar behaviour as a TCP/IP or UDP/IP socket. A socket is bidirectional and can be used by a lot of processes simultaneously. A process can accept …

Most socket libraries, however, are so used to programmers neglecting to use this piece of etiquette that normally a close is the same as shutdown(); close(). So in most situations, an …

If you're reading this in 2019 and using Ubuntu 16.x or 18.x, especially if you're running multiple IPs, a libvirt/kvm host, or expect that your OpenVPN instance only listen on a single specified …

Sep 30, 2008 · An endpoint (socket) is defined by the combination of a network address and a port identifier. Note that address/port does not completely identify a socket (more on this later). …

113 A socket is a pseudo-file that represents a network connection. Once a socket has been created (identifying the other host and port), writes to that socket are turned into network …

When the Client tries to connect to a disconnected IP address, there is a long timeout over 15 seconds... How can we reduce this timeout? What is the method to configure it? The code I'm …

The socket is opened and idle - then keepalive limits are interesting. With an idle socket system will wait tcp_keepalive_time seconds, and after that try tcp_keepalive_probes times to send a …