PROTOCOLS

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BSD mandoc
BSD 4.2  

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 with the following information:
official protocol name
protocol number
aliases

Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the 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

 

SEE ALSO

getprotoent(3)  

BUGS

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

HISTORY

The file format appeared in BSD 4.2


 

Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
BUGS
HISTORY

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