Title: ip_open()


ip_open() finds an available ip file descriptor in ip_fd_table[], sets a few of the ip file descriptor's fields, and then returns the index of the ip file descriptor within ip_fd_table[]. ip_open() is called by higher-level code (e.g., udp_main()) and the returned ip file descriptor is then associated with a higher-level port (e.g., udp port).



Note that there will only be a few ip file descriptors open at any given time. There will be an ip file descriptor opened for each interface for each client (udp, tcp, and icmp) and there will be one ip file descriptor opened each time the /dev/ip file is opened directly (as opposed to when, for example, the /dev/udp file is opened).