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Basic Socket Programming: - TCP/IP Overview. - TCP Interface

- Basic socket programming involves using TCP and UDP sockets to communicate over a network. TCP provides connection-oriented and reliable byte streams using sockets, bind, listen, accept, connect, read, write and close functions. A socket represents an endpoint for communication and is bound to an IP address and port number.

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Basic Socket Programming: - TCP/IP Overview. - TCP Interface

- Basic socket programming involves using TCP and UDP sockets to communicate over a network. TCP provides connection-oriented and reliable byte streams using sockets, bind, listen, accept, connect, read, write and close functions. A socket represents an endpoint for communication and is bound to an IP address and port number.

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Basic Socket Programming

• TCP/IP overview.
• TCP interface
• Reference:
– UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens.
– UNIX man page.
• Overview of TCP/IP protocols
–Application layer(ssh,http,etc)
– Transport layer (TCP, UDP)
– Network layer (IPv4, IPv6)
– Host to Network layer (Ethernet)
• Some concepts:
– Entity (process/hardware/system
calls)
– Protocol: How peer entities
interact with each other.
– Service interface: How upper
layer entities interact with lower
layer entities.
• Socket Programming: the use of
TCP and UDP.
• TCP: Transmission control
protocol.
• connection-oriented, reliable,
full duplex, byte stream service
• Interface: socket, bind, listen,
accept, connect, read, write,
close.
– An analogy:
Socket: telephone
Bind: assign telephone number to a
telephone
Listen: turn on the ringer so that you
can hear the phone call
Connect: dial a phone number
Accept: answer the phone
Read/write: talking
Close: ???
• To send:
– Socket, connect write
• To receive:
– Socket, bind, listen, accept read
• TCP endpoint:
– IP address + port number
• Basic TCP sockets.
#include <sys/socket.h>
int socket(int family, int type, int
protocol);
• Family: AF_INET (PF_INET).
• Type: SOCK_STREAM (TCP)
SOCK_DGRAM (UDP)
• Protocol: = 0
• Return descriptor, -1 on error.
• Connect:
#include <sys/socket.h>
int connect(int sockfd, const
struct sockaddr *servaddr,
socklen_t addrlen);

• Servaddr: socket address


structure (ip address and port)
• Socket Address structure:
struct in_addr {
in_addr_t s_addr;
}

struct sockaddr_in {
uint8_t sin_len; struct sockaddr {
sa_family_t sin_family; uint8_t sa_len;
in_port_t sin_port; sa_family_t sa_family;
struct in_addr sin_addr; char sa_data[14];
char sin_zero[8]; }
}

• Always use sockaddr_in type for manipulation and convert it


to sockaddr. See example1.c.
• Bind
–Client does not have to bind,
system assigns a dynamic port
number.
#include <sys/socket.h>
int bind(int sockfd, const
struct sockaddr &myaddr,
socklen_t addlen);
• Myaddr:
(address, port) = (INADDR_ANY, 0)
system assigns addr and port.
= (INADDR_ANY, !0)
system selects addr, user selects port
=(Local IP address, 0)
user selects addr, system selects port
=(Local IP address,!0)
user selects both addr and port
See example2.c
• Listen
– Convert a socket into a passive
socket
#include <sys/socket.h>
int listen(int sockfd, int backlog)
• Backlog: number of
connections that the kernel
should queue for the socket.
• Accept:
• Blocking by default
#include <sys/socket.h>
int accept (int sockfd, struct
sockaddr *cliaddr, socklen_t
*addrlen);

• Return client’s address in cliaddr


• See example2.c
• What happen when we run
example2.c as server on diablo and
example1.c as client on linprog?
– Sockaddr_in revisit
• sin_port and sin_addr must be
in network byte order.
–Check example3.c, what is
the difference between
diablo and quake?
• Some useful functions to convert the
byte orders
#include <netinet/in.h>
uint16_t htons(uint16_t host16bitvalue);
uint32_t htonl(uint32_t host32bitvalue);
uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t net16bitvalue);
Uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t net32bitvalue);

– See example3.c
• Some byte manipulation functions:
#include <strings.h>
Void *memset(void *dst, int c, size_t len);
Void *memcpy(void *dst, void *src, size_t
nbytes);
Void *memcmp(const void *ptr1, const
void *ptr2, size_t nbytes);
• Address conversion functions
• inet_aton/inet_addr/inet_ntoa

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