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The protocols file contains information regarding the known protocols used in the DARPA Internet. For each protocol, a single line should be present containing the following information:
<official protocol name> <protocol number> <aliases>
Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ``#'' at the beginning of a line indicates a comment; characters up to the end of that line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
Protocol names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character.
/etc/protocols
The protocols file resides in /etc.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Interface Stability | Evolving |
A name server should be used instead of a static file.
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