ticlts(7)                                                  ticlts(7)


       NAME
             ticlts - connectionless loopback transport provider

       SYNOPSIS
             #include <sys/socket.h>
             s = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
             #include <xti.h>
             t = t_open("/dev/ticlts", O_RDWR, infop);

       DESCRIPTION
             ticlts is a datagram-mode transport provider offering service
             of type T_CLTS (connectionless).

             /dev/ticlts is typically invoked as the implied device in a
             call to socket or as the first argument in a call to t_open
             and is used to identify the transport protocol that will
             supply a connectionless transport service.

             The device known as ticlts is a ``loopback transport
             provider,'' that is, a stand-alone network at the transport
             level.  Loopback providers are transport providers in every
             sense except one: only one host (the local machine) is
             ``connected to'' a loopback network.

             /dev/ticlts may be used as a clone device to find a minor
             available device for the transport user.  It presents a TPI
             (STREAMS-level) interface to application processes and is
             intended to be accessed via the TLI (application-level)
             interface.  It supports address spaces consisting of ``flex-
             addresses,'' that is, arbitrary sequences of octets, of length
             > 0, represented by a netbuf structure, described in Intro(3).

          Return Values
             The value returned by a call to open an endpoint with
             /dev/ticlts is a file descriptor characterizing the endpoint.

          Files
             /dev/ticlts       loopback transport provider
             /usr/lib/libnsl.so
                               Network Services Library (shared object)
             /usr/lib/libsocket.so
                               Socket Library (shared object)
             /usr/lib/libxti.so
                               Transport Interface Library (shared object)




                           Copyright 1994 Novell, Inc.               Page 1

      ticlts(7)                                                  ticlts(7)


      USAGE
            Loopback transports support a local IPC mechanism through the
            TLI interface.  Applications implemented in a transport
            provider-independent manner on a client-server model using
            this IPC are transparently transportable to networked
            environments.

            /dev/ticlts supports the same service type (T_CLTS) supported
            by the OSI transport-level model.

      REFERENCES
            intro(3), socket(3N), t_open(3N), t_rcvdis(3N), clone(7),
            ticots(7), ticotsord(7)



































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