soconfig

- configure transport providers for use by sockets

Synopsis

/sbin/soconfig -f file

/sbin/soconfig family type protocol [path]

Description

The soconfig utility configures the transport provider driver for use with sockets. It specifies how the family, type, and protocol parameters in the socket(3SOCKET) call are mapped to the name of a transport provider such as /dev/tcp. This utility can be used to add an additional mapping or remove a previous mapping.

The init(1M) utility uses soconfig with the sock2path(4) file during the booting sequence.

Options

The following options are supported:

-f file

Set up the soconfig configuration for each driver according to the information stored in file. A soconfig file consists of lines of at least the first three fields listed below, separated by spaces:

family type protocol path

These fields are described in the OPERANDS section below.

An example of file can be found in the EXAMPLES section below.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

family

The protocol family as listed in the /usr/include/sys/socket.h file, expressed as an integer.

type

The socket type as listed in the /usr/include/sys/socket.h file, expressed as an integer.

protocol

The protocol number as specified in the family-specific include file, expressed as an integer. For example, for AF_INET this number is specified in /usr/include/netinet/in.h. An unspecified protocol number is denoted with the value zero.

path

The string that specifies the path name of the device that corresponds to the transport provider. If this parameter is specified, the configuration will be added for the specified family, type, and protocol. If this parameter is not specified, the configuration will be removed.

Examples

Example 1 Using soconfig

The following example sets up /dev/tcp for family AF_INET and type SOCK_STREAM:

example# soconfig 2 2 0 /dev/tcp

The following is a sample file used with the -f option. Comment lines begin with a number sign (#):

#     Family   Type  Protocol    Path
      2       2       0          /dev/tcp
      2       2       6          /dev/tcp

      2       1       0          /dev/udp
      2       1       17         /dev/udp

      1       2       0          /dev/ticotsord
      1       1       0          /dev/ticlts

      2       4       0          /dev/rawip

Files

/etc/sock2path

file containing mappings from sockets to transport providers

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

init(1M), sock2path(4), attributes(5)

Network Interface Guide