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NAME

protocols — protocol name database

DESCRIPTION

This file associates protocol numbers with official protocol names and aliases. This allows the user to refer to a protocol by a symbolic name instead of a number. For each protocol, a single line should be present with the following information:

<official protocol name> <official protocol number> <aliases>

These mappings are defined in RFC 1700 Assigned Numbers.

Aliases are other names under which the protocol is also known. For example:

tcp 6 TCP

In this example, the library call getprotobyname() can be invoked as:

p = getprotobyname("TCP");

instead of

p = getprotobyname("tcp");

Both produce the same results.

A line cannot start with a space. Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A # character indicates the beginning of a comment. Characters from the # to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.

Protocol names can contain any printable character other than a white space, new-line, or comment character. Trailing blanks or tabs are allowed at the end of a line.

EXAMPLES

tcp 6 TCP # transmission control protocol udp 17 UDP # user datagram protocol

AUTHOR

protocols was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

/etc/protocols

SEE ALSO

getprotoent(3N).

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