sockets!!!

topic: sockets
audience: mca students OSMANIA PG CAMPUS MAHBOOBNAGAR 18-04-2008 time : 2:30 to 4:30 pm

Started discussion with addressing issues, physical address(ethernet address), ip address(classes, header format, functionalities), port addresses(well known, ephemeral, registered) , defn of socket(ip+port), client server paradigm, connection oriented vs connectionles services then explained the program connection-oriented concurrent server and client. then discussed socket system calls viz; socket, bind, listen, accept, connect, socket pair. byte ordering routines(htonl,htons,ntohl,ntohs),bzero function, unix network i/o apis.