Getting the socket FD from IP address and port

Is their a way (except looping on all open FDs) to obtain the FD for a given IP addr & port? I have a bunch of open UDP sockets each bound to an IP address & port. The application, in some instances, acts as a forward application. Is their a getfdbyname system call?

Specifically, my UDP application(C) sits between nodes A and B .

1) A sends a message to C using source Port 2000, destination port 3000 which is received by C

2) C then has to forward this to port 3000 of node B using port 2000.

At step 1, the open socket bound to port 3000 receives a message. However, at this point, I need to obtain the FD for the socket bound of port 2000 to forward the message.

Any ideas except looping over all configured sockets? 开发者_运维问答

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You could keep a hash of address => socket mappings.

What I usually do is have struct consisting of the address and the socket FD, representing a host with which I communicate. Then I have a lookup function which finds that struct by address.

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You could have a look at strace netstat -anlp which shows that you can look in /proc/net/udp to find a list of all sockets, like so:

sl  local_address rem_address   st tx_queue rx_queue tr tm->when retrnsmt   uid  timeout inode  
53: 0100007F:0035 00000000:0000 07 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000   103        0 11075 2 ffff1231230f90c0 

This shows how "some process" is listening at UDP port 53 (for the slow reader, 0x0035 == 53 and 0x0100007F is localhost)

The inode (11075) is the link to the fd. Looking in /proc/<bindpid>/fd/ we see:

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lrwx------ 1 bind bind 64 2010-07-20 06:26 513 -> socket:[11075]
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So the fd is 513. I'm not suggesting that you follow this route, but I think it is at least one way to obtain what you asked for.

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No there's no call like that, but with UDP you don't need a separate socket for each destination host/port - that's what sendto(3) is for (unless you actually connect(2) your UDP sockets).