NAME

protocols − protocol name database

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 that search the file. 

Protocol names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, new-line character, or comment character. 

FILES

/etc/protocols

SEE ALSO

getprotoent(3I). 

BUGS

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

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