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PROTOCOLS(5) File Formats Manual PROTOCOLS(5) NAME protocols -- protocol name data base DESCRIPTION The protocols file contains information regarding the assigned protocol numbers used by IPv4 and IPv6 to identify the next level protocol. For each protocol a single line should be present with the following informa- tion: 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 which search the file. Protocol names may contain any printable character other than a field de- limiter, newline, or comment character. FILES /etc/protocols The protocols file resides in /etc. SEE ALSO getprotoent(3) IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers, RFC 2780, March 2000. IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field, RFC 5237, February 2008. HISTORY The protocols file format appeared in 4.2BSD, describing the "known proto- cols used in the DARPA Internet". BUGS A name server should be used instead of a static file. FreeBSD ports 15.1 December 7, 2020 PROTOCOLS(5)
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