On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, V_Suresh wrote:

> browsers are opened in the same machine, and both issue the same 'GET'
> HTTP command to the same website. Then, the network packets will be
> having the same source and destination address, and the same port
> number(80, here). Now, when these two packets are sent, and the
> resultant packets arrive to our machine, which again would be
> identical, how is it that the kernel differentiates between the
> packets and sends the correct one to the appropriate browser??

The packets are not identical.  I suggest you read some documentation on 
TCP/IP and understand the difference between IP address, port and 
socket.

-- 
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It's up to you to cast it into a void or not.
                -- Phil Lapsley



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