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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" From: @(#)inet.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd January 26, 2012 32.Dt INET 4 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm inet 36.Nd Internet protocol family 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.In sys/types.h 39.In netinet/in.h 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The Internet protocol family is a collection of protocols 42layered atop the 43.Em Internet Protocol 44.Pq Tn IP 45transport layer, and utilizing the Internet address format. 46The Internet family provides protocol support for the 47.Dv SOCK_STREAM , SOCK_DGRAM , 48and 49.Dv SOCK_RAW 50socket types; the 51.Dv SOCK_RAW 52interface provides access to the 53.Tn IP 54protocol. 55.Sh ADDRESSING 56Internet addresses are four byte quantities, stored in 57network standard format (on little endian machines, such as the 58.Tn alpha , 59.Tn amd64 60and 61.Tn i386 62these are word and byte reversed). 63The include file 64.In netinet/in.h 65defines this address 66as a discriminated union. 67.Pp 68Sockets bound to the Internet protocol family utilize 69the following addressing structure, 70.Bd -literal -offset indent 71struct sockaddr_in { 72 uint8_t sin_len; 73 sa_family_t sin_family; 74 in_port_t sin_port; 75 struct in_addr sin_addr; 76 char sin_zero[8]; 77}; 78.Ed 79.Pp 80Sockets may be created with the local address 81.Dv INADDR_ANY 82to affect 83.Dq wildcard 84matching on incoming messages. 85The address in a 86.Xr connect 2 87or 88.Xr sendto 2 89call may be given as 90.Dv INADDR_ANY 91to mean 92.Dq this host . 93The distinguished address 94.Dv INADDR_BROADCAST 95is allowed as a shorthand for the broadcast address on the primary 96network if the first network configured supports broadcast. 97.Sh PROTOCOLS 98The Internet protocol family is comprised of 99the 100.Tn IP 101network protocol, Internet Control 102Message Protocol 103.Pq Tn ICMP , 104Internet Group Management Protocol 105.Pq Tn IGMP , 106Transmission Control 107Protocol 108.Pq Tn TCP , 109and User Datagram Protocol 110.Pq Tn UDP . 111.Tn TCP 112is used to support the 113.Dv SOCK_STREAM 114abstraction while 115.Tn UDP 116is used to support the 117.Dv SOCK_DGRAM 118abstraction. 119A raw interface to 120.Tn IP 121is available 122by creating an Internet socket of type 123.Dv SOCK_RAW . 124The 125.Tn ICMP 126message protocol is accessible from a raw socket. 127.Pp 128The 129.Nm 130address on an interface consist of the address itself, the 131netmask, either broadcast address in case of a broadcast 132interface or peers address in case of point-to-point interface. 133The following 134.Xr ioctl 2 135commands are provided for a datagram socket in the Internet domain: 136.Pp 137.Bl -tag -width ".Dv SIOCGIFBRDADDR" -offset indent -compact 138.It Dv SIOCAIFADDR 139Add address to an interface. 140The command requires 141.Ft struct in_aliasreq 142as argument. 143.It Dv SIOCDIFADDR 144Delete address from an interface. 145The command requires 146.Ft struct ifreq 147as argument. 148.It Dv SIOCGIFADDR 149.It Dv SIOCGIFBRDADDR 150.It Dv SIOCGIFDSTADDR 151.It Dv SIOCGIFNETMASK 152Return address information from interface. The returned value 153is in 154.Ft struct ifreq . 155This way of address information retrieval is obsoleted, a 156preferred way is to use 157.Xr getifaddrs 3 158API. 159.El 160.Ss MIB Variables 161A number of variables are implemented in the net.inet branch of the 162.Xr sysctl 3 163MIB. 164In addition to the variables supported by the transport protocols 165(for which the respective manual pages may be consulted), 166the following general variables are defined: 167.Bl -tag -width IPCTL_FASTFORWARDING 168.It Dv IPCTL_FORWARDING 169.Pq ip.forwarding 170Boolean: enable/disable forwarding of IP packets. 171Defaults to off. 172.It Dv IPCTL_FASTFORWARDING 173.Pq ip.fastforwarding 174Boolean: enable/disable the use of 175.Tn fast IP forwarding 176code. 177Defaults to off. 178When 179.Tn fast IP forwarding 180is enabled, IP packets are forwarded directly to the appropriate network 181interface with direct processing to completion, which greatly improves 182the throughput. 183All packets for local IP addresses, non-unicast, or with IP options are 184handled by the normal IP input processing path. 185All features of the normal (slow) IP forwarding path are supported 186including firewall (through 187.Xr pfil 9 188hooks) checking, except 189.Xr ipsec 4 190tunnel brokering. 191The 192.Tn IP fastforwarding 193path does not generate ICMP redirect or source quench messages. 194.It Dv IPCTL_SENDREDIRECTS 195.Pq ip.redirect 196Boolean: enable/disable sending of ICMP redirects in response to 197.Tn IP 198packets for which a better, and for the sender directly reachable, route 199and next hop is known. 200Defaults to on. 201.It Dv IPCTL_DEFTTL 202.Pq ip.ttl 203Integer: default time-to-live 204.Pq Dq TTL 205to use for outgoing 206.Tn IP 207packets. 208.It Dv IPCTL_ACCEPTSOURCEROUTE 209.Pq ip.accept_sourceroute 210Boolean: enable/disable accepting of source-routed IP packets (default false). 211.It Dv IPCTL_SOURCEROUTE 212.Pq ip.sourceroute 213Boolean: enable/disable forwarding of source-routed IP packets (default false). 214.It Va ip.process_options 215Integer: control IP options processing. 216By setting this variable to 0, all IP options in the incoming packets 217will be ignored, and the packets will be passed unmodified. 218By setting to 1, IP options in the incoming packets will be processed 219accordingly. 220By setting to 2, an 221.Tn ICMP 222.Dq "prohibited by filter" 223message will be sent back in response to incoming packets with IP options. 224Default is 1. 225This 226.Xr sysctl 8 227variable affects packets destined for a local host as well as packets 228forwarded to some other host. 229.It Va ip.random_id 230Boolean: control IP IDs generation behaviour. 231Setting this 232.Xr sysctl 8 233to non-zero causes the ID field in IP packets to be randomized instead of 234incremented by 1 with each packet generated. 235This closes a minor information leak which allows remote observers to 236determine the rate of packet generation on the machine by watching the 237counter. 238In the same time, on high-speed links, it can decrease the ID reuse 239cycle greatly. 240Default is 0 (sequential IP IDs). 241IPv6 flow IDs and fragment IDs are always random. 242.It Va ip.maxfragpackets 243Integer: maximum number of fragmented packets the host will accept and hold 244in the reassembling queue simultaneously. 2450 means that the host will not accept any fragmented packets. 246\-1 means that the host will accept as many fragmented packets as it receives. 247.It Va ip.maxfragsperpacket 248Integer: maximum number of fragments the host will accept and hold 249in the reassembling queue for a packet. 2500 means that the host will not accept any fragmented packets. 251.El 252.Sh SEE ALSO 253.Xr ioctl 2 , 254.Xr socket 2 , 255.Xr getifaddrs 3 , 256.Xr sysctl 3 , 257.Xr icmp 4 , 258.Xr intro 4 , 259.Xr ip 4 , 260.Xr ipfirewall 4 , 261.Xr route 4 , 262.Xr tcp 4 , 263.Xr udp 4 , 264.Xr pfil 9 265.Rs 266.%T "An Introductory 4.3 BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial" 267.%B PS1 268.%N 7 269.Re 270.Rs 271.%T "An Advanced 4.3 BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial" 272.%B PS1 273.%N 8 274.Re 275.Sh HISTORY 276The 277.Nm 278protocol interface appeared in 279.Bx 4.2 . 280The 281.Dq protocol cloning 282code appeared in 283.Fx 2.1 . 284.Sh CAVEATS 285The Internet protocol support is subject to change as 286the Internet protocols develop. 287Users should not depend 288on details of the current implementation, but rather 289the services exported. 290