Re: TCP/IP stack

[Kevin Buhr]

Michael J Clark <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> I have been reading through TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 2 and the linux 
> source.  I am having a heck of a time finding where it sees a SYN packet 
> and check to see if the desitination port is open.  In the book it looks 
> like it happens in tcp_input where it looks for the PCB for a segment.  
> Any pointers would be greatly appeciated.

In 2.2.19 (since I have the source handy), this processing is done in
"linux/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c" in function "tcp_rcv_state_process".  If
a SYN packet arrives and the socket is in state TCP_LISTEN, the
address-family-specific "conn_request" function is called.  For IPv4,
this is "tcp_v4_conn_request" in "tcp_ipv4.c".

On the other hand, if a SYN packet is sent to a TCP_CLOSE socket,
"tcp_rcv_state_process" returns 1.  This is an indication to the
caller ("tcp_v4_do_rcv" in "tcp_ipv4.c", in the case of IPv4) to send
a RST packet.

Kevin <[e-mail]>