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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-23 11:12:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-23 11:13:26 +0200 |
| commit | d8833593c704fffec95ad513c5282337aa4f2d3a (patch) | |
| tree | 2bde24cedcbdb01382f38eec6e99f7e96a393876 | |
| parent | c5885e4fffbfb028045d9e4a714c371e1f710d15 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-d8833593c704fffec95ad513c5282337aa4f2d3a.tar.gz | |
ip.7: Note a few more valid 'protocol' values
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204981
Reported-by: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/ip.7 | 38 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -78,28 +78,44 @@ An IP socket is created using .PP socket(AF_INET, socket_type, protocol); .PP -Valid socket types are +Valid socket types include .B SOCK_STREAM -to open a -.BR tcp (7) -socket, +to open a stream socket, .B SOCK_DGRAM -to open a -.BR udp (7) -socket, or +to open a datagram socket, and .B SOCK_RAW to open a .BR raw (7) socket to access the IP protocol directly. +.PP .I protocol is the IP protocol in the IP header to be received or sent. -The only valid values for +Valid values for .I protocol -are 0 and +include: +.IP \(bu 2 +0 and .B IPPROTO_TCP -for TCP sockets, and 0 and +for +.BR tcp (7) +stream sockets; +.IP \(bu +0 and .B IPPROTO_UDP -for UDP sockets. +for +.BR udp (7) +datagram sockets; +.IP \(bu +.B IPPROTO_SCTP +for +.BR sctp (7) +stream sockets; and +.IP \(bu +.B IPPROTO_UDPLITE +for +.BR udplite (7) +datagram sockets. +.PP For .B SOCK_RAW you may specify a valid IANA IP protocol defined in |