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- From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: getprotobyname(), does it ever change?
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 23:22:22 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <195r7eINNrdp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Sep15.132442.2149@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <195n2pINN91b@early-bird.think.com>
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- In article <195n2pINN91b@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >I suspect that the only reason one would ever change /etc/protocols would
- >be for experimental purposes.
-
- It would seem to me that the /etc/protocols lookups would also be useful
- for packet-dump programs. I see very little use for being able to change
- the numbers of standard protocols, but the ability to add numbers for new
- protocols might be handy when using a network diagnostic tool of some sort.
-
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