>It means the socket buffer is >not global for all processes and VM assigns some certain portion of >global buffer to each process.
Yes! Buffer should be shared for all IP packets, "common-sense", IP packet contains information on a port number (Socket), and all IP packets share same "buffer", then they are handled (passed to a higher layer in OSI, to Transport Layer / TCP) accordingly to info found in IP header... 7 Layers of the OSI Model, http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/OSI_Layers.asp Thanks
