For anyone familiar with sockets being very confused. When they say "raw sockets" they just mean like TCP or UDP sockets as opposed to eg. "websockets". Actual

For anyone familiar with sockets being very confused. When they say "raw sockets" they just mean like TCP or UDP sockets as opposed to eg. "websockets". Actual raw (PF_INET, SOCK_RAW) sockets would allow you to do all kinds of additional crazy things beyond merely establishing a TCP connection or sending a UDP datagram. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/raw.7.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/raw.7.html