General description

The handoff functionality makes it possible to move the endpoint of a socket connection without the need to interrupt establishment of the connection. In other words, the application that is actively establishing the connection does not have to repeat the process. This is made possible by an extended functionality taking into account the ISO service functionality in the AF_ISO domain. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to establish a local AF_ISO connection for internal communication.

One practical example is when connection requests are accepted by a central listener and the endpoint is moved to an assigned server.