As ubiquitous as TCP/IP is, network programming interfaces have hardly advanced since the invention of the “Berkeley sockets” low-level networking API.

If you want a book on network programming, there are a few classic choices. [Comer’s] TCP/IP books are a great reference but sometimes is too low level. “Unix Networking Progr ...

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More precisely, the network driver will have a look at the Protocol Type field inside the Ethernet frame header (see Figure 1) and, based on that value, forward the packet to the appropriate protocol ...