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Title: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: jitspoe on May 10, 2007, 02:58:07 AM

So I was looking through winsock.h and saw this...

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/*
 * Address families.
 */
#define AF_UNSPEC       0               /* unspecified */
#define AF_UNIX         1               /* local to host (pipes, portals) */
#define AF_INET         2               /* internetwork: UDP, TCP, etc. */
#define AF_IMPLINK      3               /* arpanet imp addresses */
#define AF_PUP          4               /* pup protocols: e.g. BSP */
#define AF_CHAOS        5               /* mit CHAOS protocols */
#define AF_IPX          6               /* IPX and SPX */
#define AF_NS           6               /* XEROX NS protocols */
#define AF_ISO          7               /* ISO protocols */
#define AF_OSI          AF_ISO          /* OSI is ISO */
#define AF_ECMA         8               /* european computer manufacturers */
#define AF_DATAKIT      9               /* datakit protocols */
#define AF_CCITT        10              /* CCITT protocols, X.25 etc */
#define AF_SNA          11              /* IBM SNA */
#define AF_DECnet       12              /* DECnet */
#define AF_DLI          13              /* Direct data link interface */
#define AF_LAT          14              /* LAT */
#define AF_HYLINK       15              /* NSC Hyperchannel */
#define AF_APPLETALK    16              /* AppleTalk */
#define AF_NETBIOS      17              /* NetBios-style addresses */
#define AF_VOICEVIEW    18              /* VoiceView */
#define AF_FIREFOX      19              /* FireFox */
#define AF_UNKNOWN1     20              /* Somebody is using this! */
#define AF_BAN          21              /* Banyan */

#define AF_MAX          22
Look at #19.

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: KnacK on May 10, 2007, 07:31:28 AM

OK I give...

What's it mean?

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: Cobo on May 10, 2007, 09:03:10 AM

Hah, its on managed code as well, lol.
System::Net::Sockets::AddressFamily::FireFox

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: jitspoe on May 10, 2007, 01:09:14 PM

Quote from: KnacK on May 10, 2007, 07:31:28 AM

OK I give...

What's it mean?

Don't quite know.  I haven't been able to figure it out.  I'm pretty sure that header was created long before firefox (the browser) existed, so I don't think it has anything to do with that.  I also didn't realize there were so many.  I mean, I've heard of inet (obviously), IPX, AppleTalk, Unix, and the ISO one doesn't surprise me, but FireFox?  What's that used for?

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: y00tz on May 10, 2007, 01:28:51 PM

It's obviously the protocol to talk to FireFox the movie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_%28film%29)

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: jitspoe on May 10, 2007, 01:35:03 PM

Wow, 21 million dollar budget with Clint Eastwood?  How have I not heard of this movie?  Must not have been very good.

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: S8NSSON on May 10, 2007, 01:48:59 PM

http://www.koders.com/?s=firefox

http://csua.com/?entry=45153 says:

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2006/11/3-4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45153 Activity:nil

11/3    In my WinSock.h for v1.1 (dated 6/4/02), there is this line:
                #define AF_FIREFOX      19              /* FireFox */
        What is that???  FireFox socket address family?
        \_ It is a hack MS put into the windows network stack back in '02 to
           slow down FireFox network connections.

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: jitspoe on May 10, 2007, 01:52:33 PM

lol, I doubt that.  Somebody is just trying to be funny.

Title: Re: FireFox Address Family?
Post by: y00tz on May 10, 2007, 01:57:13 PM

Quote from: jitspoe on May 10, 2007, 01:35:03 PM

Must not have been very good.

Quote from: Wikipedia

Eastwood stars as Maj. Mitchell Gant, a Vietnam veteran who infiltrates the Soviet Union, aided by his ability to speak Russian and a network of dissidents and sympathizers.