IRIX^® Network Programming Guide

Table of Contents

New Features in This Manual

Major Documentation Changes

About This Guide

Audience for This Guide

Typographic Conventions

Chapter Summaries

Documentation Sources

Additional Reading

Obtaining Publications

Reader Comments

1. Network Programming Overview

Introduction to IRIX Network Programming

The Internet Protocol Suite

Compiling BSD and RPC Programs

2. Sockets-based Communication

Sockets Basics

Network Library Routines

The Client/Server Model

Advanced Topics

3. Sockets-based Communication Using IPv6

Creation of an IPv6 Socket

IPv6 Address Structures

IPv6 Unspecified Address

IPv6 Loopback Address

Protocol Independent Socket Address Structure

Server and Client Programs

Socket Options

Using Multicasting

4. Introduction to RPC Programming

Overview of Remote Procedure Calls

The XDR Standard

The Layers of RPC

The rpcgen Protocol Compiler

Assigning RPC Program Numbers

The Port Mapper Programs

5. Programming with rpcgen

Introduction to the rpcgen Compiler

Changing Local Procedures to Remote Procedures

Generating XDR Routines

The C Preprocessor

pcgen Programming Notes

6. RPC Programming Guide

The Layers of RPC

Other RPC Features

More Examples

7. XDR and RPC Language Structure

XDR Language

RPC Language

8. XDR Programming Notes

Overview of XDR Programming

The XDR Library

XDR Library Primitives

XDR Operation Directions

XDR Stream Access

XDR Stream Implementation

Advanced Topics

9. Transport Layer Interface

Introduction

Network Selection and Name-to-Address Mapping

OSI Reference Model

Overview of the Transport Interface

Introduction to Connection-Mode Service

Introduction to Connectionless-Mode Service

A Read/Write Interface

Advanced Topics

State Transitions

Guidelines for Protocol Independence

Some Examples

Error Messages

A. RPC Protocol Specification

RPC Protocol Requirements

RPC Protocol Definition

Authentication Protocols

Record Marking Standard

Port Mapper Program Protocol

B. XDR Protocol Specification

Basic Block Size

XDR Data Types

Common Questions about XDR

C. IRIX Name Service Implementation

Overview of UNS

UNS Programming Steps

UNS Library Routines

UNS Cache Files

UNS Name Service Daemon Operation

How UNS Protocol Libraries Work

NFS Interface to UNS

Index