VANESSA_SOCKET_PIPE(1) General Commands Manual VANESSA_SOCKET_PIPE(1)NAME
vanessa_socket_pipe - Trivial TCP/IP pipe based on libvanessa_socket
SYNOPSIS
vanessa_socket_pipe [options]
DESCRIPTION
A TCP/IP pipe is a user space programme that listens for TCP/IP connections on port on the local host and when a client connects makes a
connection to a TCP port, possibly on another host. Once both connections are established data sent on one connection is relayed to the
other, hence forming a bi-directional pipe.
Uses include enabling connections to specific ports on hosts behind a packet filter.
This code is intended primarily as an example of how many of the features of libvanessa_socket work.
OPTIONS
-c|--connection_limit:
Maximum number of connections to accept simultaneously. A value of zero sets no limit on the number of simultaneous connections.
(default 0)
-d|--debug:
Turn on verbose debuging to stderr.
-h|--help:
Display this message.
-L|--listen_port:
Port to listen on. (mandatory)
-l|--listen_host:
Address to listen on. May be a hostname or an IP address. If not defined then listen on all local addresses.
-n|--no_lookup:
Turn off lookup of hostnames and portnames. That is, hosts must be given as IP addresses and ports must be given as numbers.
-O|--outgoing_port:
Define a port to connect to. If not specified -l|--listen_port will be used.
-o|--outgoing_host:
Define host to connect to. May be a hostname or an IP address. (mandatory)
-q|--quiet:
Only log errors. Overriden by -d|--debug.
-t|--timeout:
Idle timeout in seconds. Value of zero sets infinite timeout. (default 1800)
Notes: Default value for binary flags is off.
-L|--listen_port and -o|--outgoing_host must be defined.
AUTHOR
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
12th February 2001 VANESSA_SOCKET_PIPE(1)
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tcpserver(1) General Commands Manual tcpserver(1)NAME
tcpserver - accept incoming TCP connections
SYNOPSIS
tcpserver [ -146jpPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -climit ] [ -xrules.cdb ] [ -Bbanner ] [ -ggid ] [ -uuid ] [ -bbacklog ] [ -llocalname ] [ -ttimeout ] [
-Iinterface ] host port program [ arg ... ]
DESCRIPTION
tcpserver waits for connections from TCP clients. For each connection, it runs program with the given arguments, with descriptor 0 reading
from the network and descriptor 1 writing to the network.
The server's address is given by host and port. host can be 0, allowing connections from any host; or a particular IP address, allowing
connections only to that address; or a host name, allowing connections to the first IP address for that host. port may be a numeric port
number or a port name. If port is 0, tcpserver will choose a free port.
tcpserver sets up several environment variables, as described in tcp-environ(5).
tcpserver exits when it receives SIGTERM.
OPTIONS -climit
Do not handle more than limit simultaneous connections. If there are limit simultaneous copies of program running, defer acceptance
of a new connection until one copy finishes. limit must be a positive integer. Default: 40.
-xrules.cdb
Follow the rules compiled into rules.cdb by tcprules. These rules may specify setting environment variables or rejecting connec-
tions from bad sources.
tcpserver does not read rules.cdb into memory; you can rerun tcprules to change tcpserver's behavior on the fly.
-Bbanner
Write banner to the network immediately after each connection is made. tcpserver writes banner before looking up TCPREMOTEHOST,
before looking up TCPREMOTEINFO, and before checking rules.cdb.
This feature can be used to reduce latency in protocols where the client waits for a greeting from the server.
-ggid Switch group ID to gid after preparing to receive connections. gid must be a positive integer.
-uuid Switch user ID to uid after preparing to receive connections. uid must be a positive integer.
-1 After preparing to receive connections, print the local port number to standard output.
-4 Fall back to IPv4 sockets. This is necessary for terminally broken systems like OpenBSD which will not let IPv6 sockets connect to
V4-mapped IPv6 addresses. Please note that this also applies to DNS lookups, so you will have to use an DNS resolver with an IPv6
address to accept IPv6 connections. Use DNSCACHEIP to set the DNS resolver IP dynamically.
-6 Force IPv6 mode in UCSPI environment variables, even for IPv4 connections. This will set $PROTO to TCP6 and put IPv4-mapped IPv6
addresses in TCPLOCALIP and TCPREMOTEIP.
-Iinterface
Bind to the network interface interface ("eth0" on Linux, for example). This is only defined and needed for IPv6 link-local
addresses.
-bbacklog
Allow up to backlog simultaneous SYN_RECEIVEDs. Default: 20. On some systems, backlog is silently limited to 5. See listen(2) for
more details.
-o Leave IP options alone. If the client is sending packets along an IP source route, send packets back along the same route.
-O (Default.) Kill IP options. A client can still use source routing to connect and to send data, but packets will be sent back along
the default route.
-d (Default.) Delay sending data for a fraction of a second whenever the remote host is responding slowly, to make better use of the
network.
-D Never delay sending data; enable TCP_NODELAY. This is appropriate for interactive connections.
-q Quiet. Do not print any messages.
-Q (Default.) Print error messages.
-v Verbose. Print all available messages.
DATA-GATHERING OPTIONS-p Paranoid. After looking up the remote host name, look up the IP addresses for that name, and make sure one of them matches TCPRE-
MOTEIP. If none of them do, unset TCPREMOTEHOST.
-P (Default.) Not paranoid.
-h (Default.) Look up the remote host name and set TCPREMOTEHOST.
-H Do not look up the remote host name.
-llocalname
Do not look up the local host name; use localname for TCPLOCALHOST.
-r (Default.) Attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host.
-R Do not attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host.
-ttimeout
Give up on the TCPREMOTEINFO connection attempt after timeout seconds. Default: 26.
SEE ALSO argv0(1), fixcr(1), recordio(1), tcpclient(1), tcprules(1), listen(2), tcp-environ(5)tcpserver(1)