Socket is an abstraction provided by kernel to user applications for data I/O. A socket type is defined by the protocol it's handling, an IPC communication etc. So if somebody creates a TCP socket he can do manipulations like reading data to socket and writing data to it by simple methods and the lower level protocol handling like TCP conversions and forwarding packets to lower level network protocols is done by the particular socket implementation in the kernel. The advantage is that user need not worry about handling protocol specific nitigrities and should just read and write data to socket like a normal buffer. Same is true in case of IPC, user just reads and writes data to socket and kernel handles all lower level details based on the type of socket created.

端口和IP一起就像给套接字提供一个地址，虽然不是必需的，但它有助于网络通信。

套接字= IP地址+端口(数字地址) 它们一起标识机器上网络连接的端点。(我刚刚是不是网络基础课不及格?)

端口表示IP网络协议的TCP和UDP传输中的通信端点。套接字是通信端点的软件抽象，通常用于这些协议的实现(套接字API)。另一种实现是XTI/TLI API。

参见:

史蒂文斯，W. R. 1998, UNIX网络编程:网络api:套接字和XTI;第一卷，普伦蒂斯大厅。 Stevens, W. R.， 1994, TCP/IP图解，第1卷:协议，Addison-Wesley。

Socket is an abstraction provided by kernel to user applications for data I/O. A socket type is defined by the protocol it's handling, an IPC communication etc. So if somebody creates a TCP socket he can do manipulations like reading data to socket and writing data to it by simple methods and the lower level protocol handling like TCP conversions and forwarding packets to lower level network protocols is done by the particular socket implementation in the kernel. The advantage is that user need not worry about handling protocol specific nitigrities and should just read and write data to socket like a normal buffer. Same is true in case of IPC, user just reads and writes data to socket and kernel handles all lower level details based on the type of socket created.

端口和IP一起就像给套接字提供一个地址，虽然不是必需的，但它有助于网络通信。

似乎有很多答案将socket等同于2台PC之间的连接。我认为这是完全错误的。套接字一直是一台PC上的端点，可能连接也可能不连接-当然我们都在某些时候使用侦听器或UDP套接字*。重要的部分是它是可寻址的和活跃的。向1.1.1.1:1234发送消息不太可能起作用，因为没有为该端点定义套接字。

套接字是特定于协议的-因此，TCP/IP和UDP/IP都使用* (ipaddress:port)的唯一性实现与eg不同。， IPX (Network, Node, and…嗯哼，套接字——但是一个不同的套接字是指一般的“套接字”术语。IPX套接字号相当于IP端口)。但是，它们都提供了唯一的可寻址端点。

由于IP已成为主导协议，端口(在网络术语中)已成为UDP或TCP端口号的同义词——后者是套接字地址的一部分。

UDP is connection-less - meaning no virtual circuit between the 2 endpoints is ever created. However, we still refer to UDP sockets as the endpoint. The API functions make it clear that both are just different type of sockets - SOCK_DGRAM is UDP (just sending a message) and SOCK_STREAM is TCP (creating a virtual circuit). Technically, the IP header holds the IP Address, and the protocol on top of IP (UDP or TCP) holds the port number. This makes it possible to have other protocols (eg. ICMP that have no port numbers, but do have IP addressing information).

端口和插座可以比作银行分行。

“银行”的门牌号与IP地址类似。 银行有不同的部分，比如:

储蓄帐务部 个人贷款部 房屋贷款部 投诉部门

因此，1(储蓄账户部)、2(个人贷款部)、3(住房贷款部)和4(申诉部)是端口。

现在让我们假设你要开一个储蓄账户，你去了银行(IP地址)，然后你去了“储蓄账户部门”(端口号1)，然后你遇到了在“储蓄账户部门”工作的一名员工。让我们称他为SAVINGACCOUNT_EMPLOYEE1，用于开户。

SAVINGACCOUNT_EMPLOYEE1是套接字描述符，因此可能存在 SAVINGACCOUNT_EMPLOYEE1到SAVINGACCOUNT_EMPLOYEEN。这些都是套接字描述符。

同样地，其他部门将有员工在他们之下工作，他们类似于插座。