1NETCONFIG(5)                BSD File Formats Manual               NETCONFIG(5)
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NAME

4     netconfig — network configuration data base
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SYNOPSIS

7     /etc/netconfig
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DESCRIPTION

10     The netconfig file defines a list of “transport names”, describing their
11     semantics and protocol.  In FreeBSD, this file is only used by the RPC
12     library code.
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14     Entries have the following format:
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16     network_id semantics flags family protoname device libraries
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18     Entries consist of the following fields:
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20     network_id  The name of the transport described.
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22     semantics   Describes the semantics of the transport.  This can be one
23                 of:
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25                       tpi_clts      Connectionless transport.
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27                       tpi_cots      Connection-oriented transport
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29                       tpi_cots_ord  Connection-oriented, ordered transport.
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31                       tpi_raw       A raw connection.
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33     flags       This field is either blank (specified by “-”), or contains a
34                 “v”, meaning visible to the getnetconfig(3) function.
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36     family      The protocol family of the transport.  This is currently one
37                 of:
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39                       inet6     The IPv6 (PF_INET6) family of protocols.
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41                       inet      The IPv4 (PF_INET) family of protocols.
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43                       loopback  The PF_LOCAL protocol family.
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45     protoname   The name of the protocol used for this transport.  Can cur‐
46                 rently be either udp, tcp or empty.
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48     device      This field is always empty in FreeBSD.
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50     libraries   This field is always empty in FreeBSD.
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52     The order of entries in this file will determine which transport will be
53     preferred by the RPC library code, given a match on a specified network
54     type.  For example, if a sample network config file would look like this:
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56           udp6       tpi_clts      v     inet6    udp     -       -
57           tcp6       tpi_cots_ord  v     inet6    tcp     -       -
58           udp        tpi_clts      v     inet     udp     -       -
59           tcp        tpi_cots_ord  v     inet     tcp     -       -
60           rawip      tpi_raw       -     inet      -      -       -
61           local      tpi_cots_ord  -     loopback  -      -       -
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63     then using the network type udp in calls to the RPC library function (see
64     rpc(3)) will make the code first try udp6, and then udp.
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66     getnetconfig(3) and associated functions will parse this file and return
67     structures of the following format:
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69     struct netconfig {
70         char *nc_netid;              /* Network ID */
71         unsigned long nc_semantics;  /* Semantics (see below) */
72         unsigned long nc_flag;       /* Flags (see below) */
73         char *nc_protofmly;          /* Protocol family */
74         char *nc_proto;              /* Protocol name */
75         char *nc_device;             /* Network device pathname (unused) */
76         unsigned long nc_nlookups;   /* Number of lookup libs (unused) */
77         char **nc_lookups;           /* Names of the libraries (unused) */
78         unsigned long nc_unused[9];  /* reserved */
79     };
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FILES

82     /etc/netconfig
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SEE ALSO

85     getnetconfig(3), getnetpath(3)
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