In order to receive packets, the socket can be bound to a local
address first by using
.BR bind (2).
-Otherwise the socket layer will automatically assign
+Otherwise, the socket layer will automatically assign
a free local port out of the range defined by
.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
and bind the socket to
Returns the number of data bytes in the local send queue.
Only supported with Linux 2.4 and above.
.PP
-In addition all ioctls documented in
+In addition, all ioctls documented in
.BR ip (7)
and
.BR socket (7)
RFC\ 1122 for the host requirements.
.br
RFC\ 1191 for a description of path MTU discovery.
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