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I understand that networking uses sockets as well but I am wondering if Unix domain (IPC) sockets somehow relate to network layer. If so, does this use network HW somehow? Does it work like a loopback? If not, then why are listed by netstat
in Linux ?
Fair enough. So only the semantics are there, but otherwise not related to
network
at all, right? So why they are part ofnetstat
output? – ps-aux – 2014-11-29T16:28:40.9331From a networking point of view it may seem strange indeed, but you could also see
netstat
's job as listing active sockets, and zealously it tells about unix sockets as well. You can get it back on track withnetstat --tcp --udp
though... – lemonsqueeze – 2014-11-29T16:41:42.887