Setting Up a SAN Connection
During connection setup, the Windows Sockets switch determines which service provider will service the TCP socket. This provider will handle most subsequent operations on the socket. Regardless of whether the switch chooses a SAN service provider, the TCP/IP provider exclusively handles a few types of setup operations.
This section describes the connection setup operations that a SAN service provider performs and the connection setup operations that the TCP/IP provider handles. This information is provided in the following topics:
Creating and Binding SAN Sockets
Listening for Connections on a SAN