PROTOCOLS(4)PROTOCOLS(4)NAMEprotocols - protocol name database
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/protocols file contains information regarding the known
protocols used in the Internet. For each protocol a single line should
be present with the following information:
o official protocol name
o protocol number
o aliases (optional)
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. For example,
tcp 6 TCP # transmission control protocol
FILES
/etc/protocols
If the NFS option is installed and NIS is running, the getprotoent(3N)
library routines do not access this file.
SEE ALSOgetprotoent(3N)BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.
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