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PROTOCOLS(5)		  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual		  PROTOCOLS(5)

NAME
     protocols - protocol name database

DESCRIPTION
     The protocols file contains information regarding the known protocols
     used in the DARPA Internet.  For each protocol, a single line should be
     present with the following information:

	   official protocol name
	   protocol number
	   aliases

     Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.

     A hash mark (`#') indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent
     characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines
     which search the file.

     Protocol names may contain any printable character other than a field
     delimiter, newline, or comment character.

FILES
     /etc/protocols

SEE ALSO
     getprotoent(3)

HISTORY
     The protocols file format appeared in 4.2BSD.

BUGS
     A name server should be used instead of a static file.  Lines in
     /etc/protocols are limited to BUFSIZ characters (currently 1024).	Longer
     lines will be ignored.

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9

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