Sep 30, 2008 · Sockets have been in widespread use since the early 1980s. A port represents an endpoint or "channel" for network communications. Port numbers allow different applications …

Are these 2 concepts refer to the same thing? Do they have difference? In my opinion, they are different, and socket connection is based on tcp connection. A socket contains an IP address …

I'm building web app that needs to communicate with another application using socket connections. This is new territory for me, so want to be sure that sockets are different than …

Jan 17, 2012 · 37 I have a .Net application that maintains a socket pool to reuse them. It is suspected that it might be holding too many of those sockets without releasing them. Is there a …

There is a limit, yes. See ulimit. In addition, you need to consider the TIME_WAIT state. Once a TCP socket is closed (by default) the port remains occupied in TIME_WAIT status for 2 …

Sep 16, 2009 · What is the meaning of the "connection reset by peer" error on a TCP connection? Is it a fatal error or just a notification or related to the network failure?

Unix domain sockets will do pretty much what tcp sockets will, but only on the local machine and with (perhaps a bit) lower overhead. If a Unix socket isn't fast enough and you're transferring a …

Jul 12, 2016 · Why bother with different sockets if the transmission is connectionless? Remember, independently of their respective socket identifier formats, both TCP and UDP datagrams …

Jan 14, 2011 · What's the difference between sockets (stream) and sockets (datagrams)? Why use one over the other?

Jan 18, 2015 · System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine at …