soconfig(1M) System Administration Commands soconfig(1M)NAMEsoconfig - configure transport providers for use by sockets
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/soconfig -f file
/sbin/soconfig family type protocol [path]
DESCRIPTION
The soconfig utility configures the transport provider driver for use
with sockets. It specifies how the family, type, and protocol parame‐
ters in the socket(3SOCKET) call are mapped to the name of a transport
provider such as /dev/tcp. This utility can be used to add an addi‐
tional mapping or remove a previous mapping.
The init(1M) utility uses soconfig with the sock2path(4) file during
the booting sequence.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f file Set up the soconfig configuration for each driver according to
the information stored in file. A soconfig file consists of
lines of at least the first three fields listed below, sepa‐
rated by spaces:
family type protocol path
These fields are described in the OPERANDS section below.
An example of file can be found in the EXAMPLES section below.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
family The protocol family as listed in the
/usr/include/sys/socket.h file, expressed as an inte‐
ger.
type The socket type as listed in the
/usr/include/sys/socket.h file, expressed as an inte‐
ger.
protocol The protocol number as specified in the family-specific
include file, expressed as an integer. For example,
for AF_INET this number is specified in
/usr/include/netinet/in.h. An unspecified protocol num‐
ber is denoted with the value zero.
path The string that specifies the path name of the device
that corresponds to the transport provider. If this
parameter is specified, the configuration will be added
for the specified family, type, and protocol. If this
parameter is not specified, the configuration will be
removed.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using soconfig
The following example sets up /dev/tcp for family AF_INET and type
SOCK_STREAM:
example# soconfig 2 2 0 /dev/tcp
The following is a sample file used with the -f option. Comment lines
begin with a number sign (#):
# Family Type Protocol Path
2 2 0 /dev/tcp
2 2 6 /dev/tcp
2 1 0 /dev/udp
2 1 17 /dev/udp
1 2 0 /dev/ticotsord
1 1 0 /dev/ticlts
2 4 0 /dev/rawip
FILES
/etc/sock2path file containing mappings from sockets to trans‐
port providers
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsr │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOinit(1M), sock2path(4), attributes(5)
Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide
SunOS 5.10 30 Sep 1996 soconfig(1M)
