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The author(s) may not .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working .\" professionally. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" .\" $Id: udplite.7,v 1.12 2008/07/23 15:22:22 gerrit Exp gerrit $ .\" .TH UDPLITE 7 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME udplite \- Lightweight User Datagram Protocol .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include .br .\" FIXME . see #defines under `BUGS', .\" when glibc supports this, add .\" #include .PP .B sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDPLITE); .SH DESCRIPTION This is an implementation of the Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite), as described in RFC\ 3828. .PP UDP-Lite is an extension of UDP (RFC\ 768) to support variable-length checksums. This has advantages for some types of multimedia transport that may be able to make use of slightly damaged datagrams, rather than having them discarded by lower-layer protocols. .PP The variable-length checksum coverage is set via a .BR setsockopt (2) option. If this option is not set, the only difference from UDP is in using a different IP protocol identifier (IANA number 136). .PP The UDP-Lite implementation is a full extension of .BR udp (7)\(emthat is, it shares the same API and API behavior, and in addition offers two socket options to control the checksum coverage. .SS Address format UDP-Litev4 uses the .I sockaddr_in address format described in .BR ip (7). UDP-Litev6 uses the .I sockaddr_in6 address format described in .BR ipv6 (7). .SS Socket options To set or get a UDP-Lite socket option, call .BR getsockopt (2) to read or .BR setsockopt (2) to write the option with the option level argument set to .BR IPPROTO_UDPLITE . In addition, all .B IPPROTO_UDP socket options are valid on a UDP-Lite socket. See .BR udp (7) for more information. .PP The following two options are specific to UDP-Lite. .TP .BR UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV This option sets the sender checksum coverage and takes an .I int as argument, with a checksum coverage value in the range 0..2^16-1. .IP A value of 0 means that the entire datagram is always covered. Values from 1\-7 are illegal (RFC\ 3828, 3.1) and are rounded up to the minimum coverage of 8. .IP With regard to IPv6 jumbograms (RFC\ 2675), the UDP-Litev6 checksum coverage is limited to the first 2^16-1 octets, as per RFC\ 3828, 3.5. Higher values are therefore silently truncated to 2^16-1. If in doubt, the current coverage value can always be queried using .BR getsockopt (2). .TP .BR UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV This is the receiver-side analogue and uses the same argument format and value range as .BR UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV . This option is not required to enable traffic with partial checksum coverage. Its function is that of a traffic filter: when enabled, it instructs the kernel to drop all packets which have a coverage .I less than the specified coverage value. .IP When the value of .B UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV exceeds the actual packet coverage, incoming packets are silently dropped, but may generate a warning message in the system log. .\" SO_NO_CHECK exists and is supported by UDPv4, but is .\" commented out in socket(7), hence also commented out here .\".PP .\"Since UDP-Lite mandates checksums, checksumming can not be disabled .\"via the .\".B SO_NO_CHECK .\"option from .\".BR socket (7). .SH ERRORS All errors documented for .BR udp (7) may be returned. UDP-Lite does not add further errors. .SH FILES .TP .I /proc/net/snmp Basic UDP-Litev4 statistics counters. .TP .I /proc/net/snmp6 Basic UDP-Litev6 statistics counters. .SH VERSIONS UDP-Litev4/v6 first appeared in Linux 2.6.20. .SH BUGS .\" FIXME . remove this section once glibc supports UDP-Lite Where glibc support is missing, the following definitions are needed: .PP .in +4n .EX #define IPPROTO_UDPLITE 136 .\" The following two are defined in the kernel in linux/net/udplite.h #define UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV 10 #define UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV 11 .EE .in .SH SEE ALSO .BR ip (7), .BR ipv6 (7), .BR socket (7), .BR udp (7) .PP RFC\ 3828 for the Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite). .PP .I Documentation/networking/udplite.txt in the Linux kernel source tree .SH COLOPHON This page is part of release 5.04 of the Linux .I man-pages project. 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