‘inetd’ Daemon On a typical Unix system, there could be many servers in existence, just waiting for a client request to arrive. Examples are FTP, Telnet, Rlogin, TFTP, and so on. With systems before
‘gai_strerror’ Function The nonzero error return values from getaddrinfo have the names and meanings shown in Figure 11.7. The function gai_strerror takes one of these values as an argument and retur
‘getaddrinfo’ Function The gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr functions only support IPv4. The API for resolving IPv6 addresses went through several iterations, as will be described in Section 11.20(See
LCP Options Several options can be negotiated by LCP as it establishes a link for use by one or more NCPs. We shall discuss two of the more common ones. The Asynchronous Control Character Map (ACCM)