protocols(4CC)

NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | BUGS

NAME

protocols- protocol name data base

DESCRIPTION

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.

FILES

/etc/protocols

The protocols file resides in /etc.

ATTRIBUTES

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability	Evolving

SEE ALSO

getprotoent(3POSIX)

BUGS

A name server should be used instead of a static file.

ChorusOS 4.0  Last Revised December 1999

NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | BUGS