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This manual describes how to use Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS to develop network applications using Berkeley Sockets or OpenVMS system services.
Revision/Update Information: This manual supersedes the Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS System Services and C Socket Programming, Version 5.0.
Software Version: Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Version 5.1
Operating System: OpenVMS Alpha Versions 7.1 and 7.2-1 OpenVMS VAX Versions 7.1 and 7.2
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The Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS product is the Compaq implementation of the TCP/IP networking protocol suite and internet services for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX systems.
A layered software product, TCP/IP Services provides a comprehensive suite of functions and applications that support industry-standard protocols for heterogeneous network communications and resource sharing.
See the Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration manual for information about installing, configuring, and starting this product.
This manual describes how to use TCP/IP Services to develop network applications using Berkeley Sockets or OpenVMS system services.
This manual is intended for experienced programmers who want to write network application programs that run in the TCP/IP Services environment. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language, TCP/IP protocols, and networking concepts.
This manual contains the following chapters and appendixes:
Table 1 lists the documents available with this version of TCP/IP Services.
| Manual | Contents |
|---|---|
| DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Concepts and Planning |
This manual provides conceptual information about networking and the
TCP/IP protocol including a description of the Compaq implementation of
the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) service and the Network File
System (NFS). It outlines general planning issues to consider before
configuring your system to use the TCP/IP Services software.
This manual also describes the manuals in the documentation set, provides a glossary of terms and acronyms for the TCP/IP Services software product, and documents how to contact the InterNIC Registration Service to register domains and access Request for Comments (RFCs). |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Release Notes |
This text file describes new features and changes to the software
including installation, upgrade, configuration, and compatibility
information. These notes also describe new and existing software
problems and restrictions, and software and documentation corrections.
Print this text file at the beginning of the installation procedure and read it before you install TCP/IP Services. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration | This manual explains how to install and configure the TCP/IP Services layered application product. |
| DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS User's Guide | This manual describes how to use the applications available with TCP/IP Services such as remote file operations, email, TELNET, TN3270, and network printing. This manual explains how to use these services to communicate with systems on private internets or on the worldwide Internet. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management |
This manual describes how to configure and manage the TCP/IP Services
product.
Use this manual with the Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management Command Reference manual. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management Command Reference |
This manual describes the TCP/IP Services management commands.
Use this manual with the Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management manual. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management Command Quick Reference Card | This reference card lists the TCP/IP management commands by component and describes the purpose of each command. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS UNIX Command Reference Card | This reference card contains information about commonly performed network management tasks and their corresponding TCP/IP management and Compaq Tru64 UNIX command formats. |
| DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS ONC RPC Programming | This manual presents an overview of high-level programming using open network computing remote procedure calls (ONC RPC). This manual also describes the RPC programming interface and how to use the RPCGEN protocol compiler to create applications. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Sockets API and System Services Programming | This manual describes how to use the Sockets API and OpenVMS system services to develop network applications. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS SNMP Programming and Reference | This manual describes the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the SNMP application programming interface (eSNMP). It describes the subagents provided with TCP/IP Services, utilities provided for managing subagents, and how to build your own subagents. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Tuning and Troubleshooting | This manual provides information about how to isolate the causes of network problems and how to tune the TCP/IP Services software for the best performance. |
| Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Guide to IPv6 | This manual describes the IPv6 environment, the roles of systems in this environment, the types and function of the different IPv6 addresses, and how to configure TCP/IP Services to access the 6bone network. |
For additional information about Compaq OpenVMS products and services, access the Compaq website at the following location:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/ |
For a comprehensive overview of the TCP/IP protocol suite, you might find the following books useful.
Compaq welcomes your comments on this manual. Please send comments to either of the following addresses:
| Internet | openvmsdoc@compaq.com |
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Compaq Computer Corporation
OSSG Documentation Group, ZKO3-4/U08 110 Spit Brook Rd. Nashua, NH 03062-2698 |
Use the following World Wide Web address to order additional documentation:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/ |
If you need help deciding which documentation best meets your needs, call 800-282-6672.
TCP/IP Services is used to mean both:
The following conventions are used in this manual. In addition, please note that all IP addresses are fictitious.
| Ctrl/ x | A sequence such as Ctrl/ x indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you press another key or a pointing device button. |
| PF1 x | A sequence such as PF1 x indicates that you must first press and release the key labeled PF1 and then press and release another key or a pointing device button. |
| [Return] |
In examples, a key name enclosed in a box indicates that you press a
key on the keyboard. (In text, a key name is not enclosed in a box.)
In the HTML version of this document, this convention appears as brackets, rather than a box. |
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A horizontal ellipsis in examples indicates one of the following
possibilities:
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A vertical ellipsis indicates the omission of items from a code example or command format; the items are omitted because they are not important to the topic being discussed. |
| ( ) | In command format descriptions, parentheses indicate that you must enclose choices in parentheses if you specify more than one. |
| [ ] | In command format descriptions, brackets indicate optional choices. You can choose one or more items or no items. Do not type the brackets on the command line. However, you must include the brackets in the syntax for OpenVMS directory specifications and for a substring specification in an assignment statement. |
| | | In command format descriptions, vertical bars separate choices within brackets or braces. Within brackets, the choices are optional; within braces, at least one choice is required. Do not type the vertical bars on the command line. |
| { } | In command format descriptions, braces indicate required choices; you must choose at least one of the items listed. Do not type the braces on the command line. |
| bold text | This typeface represents the introduction of a new term. It also represents the name of an argument, an attribute, or a reason. |
| italic text | Italic text indicates important information, complete titles of manuals, or variables. Variables include information that varies in system output (Internal error number), in command lines (/PRODUCER= name), and in command parameters in text (where dd represents the predefined code for the device type). |
| UPPERCASE TEXT | Uppercase text indicates a command, the name of a routine, the name of a file, or the abbreviation for a system privilege. |
| Monospace text |
Monospace type indicates code examples and interactive screen displays.
This typeface indicates UNIX system output or user input, commands, options, files, directories, utilities, hosts, and users. In the C programming language, this typeface identifies the following elements: keywords, the names of independently compiled external functions and files, syntax summaries, and references to variables or identifiers introduced in an example. |
| - | A hyphen at the end of a command format description, command line, or code line indicates that the command or statement continues on the following line. |
| numbers | All numbers in text are assumed to be decimal unless otherwise noted. Nondecimal radixes---binary, octal, or hexadecimal---are explicitly indicated. |
The application programming interfaces available with Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS allow programmers to write network applications that are independent of the underlying communication facilities. This means that the system can support communications networks that use different sets of protocols, naming conventions, and hardware platforms.
The TCP/IP Services product supports two network communication application programming interfaces (APIs):
The Sockets application programming interface (API) supports only the C programming language. The benefits of using this API include:
See Chapter 4 for a detailed description of Sockets API functions.
1.2 OpenVMS System Services
Each step in the Sockets communications process has a corresponding OpenVMS system service routine. The benefits of using OpenVMS system services include:
See Chapter 6 for a detailed description of OpenVMS system service
calls.
1.3 Application Development Files
TCP/IP Services provides definition files, a shared library file for use
in developing network applications and programming example files to
assist in learning how to develop network applications.
1.3.1 Definition Files
Table 1-1 lists the definition files that are included with TCP/IP Services in the SYS$LIBRARY directory. Specific languages may also supply additional files that define structures related to network programming. Check the documentation for the language you are using.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| TCPIP$INETDEF.ADA | Ada definition file |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.BAS | BASIC definition file |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.FOR | Fortran definition file |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.H | C and C++ definition file |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.MAR | MACRO-32 definition file |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.PAS | Pascal definition file |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.PLI | PL/I definition file |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.R32 | BLISS-32 definition file |
Compaq provides header files, data types, and support functions to facilitate OpenVMS system services programming. The header files provide definitions for constants. Table 1-2 lists the available files.
| Header File | Description |
|---|---|
| Common Industry Standard | |
| IN.H | Internet system. Constants, functions, and structures |
| INET.H | Network address information |
| NETDB.H | Network database library information |
| SIGNAL.H | UNIX style signal value definitions |
| SOCKET.H | BSD Sockets API |
| OpenVMS Related | |
| DESCRIP.H | OpenVMS descriptor |
| IOCTL.H | I/O control |
| IODEF.H | I/O function codes |
| LIB$FUNCTIONS.H | Run-time library function signatures |
| SSDEF.H | System services status code |
| STARLET.H | System services calls |
| TCPIP$INETDEF.H | TCP/IP network constants, functions, and structures |
| Standard UNIX | |
| STDIO.H | Standard UNIX I/O functions |
| STDLIB.H | Standard UNIX library functions |
| STRING.H | String-handling functions |
Table 1-3 lists the routine libraries included with TCP/IP Services.
| File | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TCPIP$IPC_SHR.EXE | SYS$LIBRARY | Sockets API Run-Time Library |
| TCPIP$LIB.OLB | TCPIP$LIBRARY | BSD Version 4.4 Sockets object library |
Table 1-4 and Table 1-5 summarize the programming examples included with TCP/IP Services in the TCPIP$EXAMPLES directory. Most of these examples consist of a client and a corresponding server. Appendix E contains printed examples of the programs described in Table 1-4 and Table 1-5.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
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TCPIP$TCP_SERVER_SOCK.C
TCPIP$TCP_CLIENT_SOCK.C |
Example TCP/IP client and server using the Sockets API. |
| TCPIP$TCP_SERVER_SOCK_AUXS.C | Example TCP/IP server using the Sockets API that accepts connections from the auxiliary server. |
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TCPIP$TCP_SERVER_QIO.C
TCPIP$TCP_CLIENT_QIO.C |
Example TCP/IP client and server using QIO system services. |
| TCPIP$TCP_SERVER_QIO_AUXS.C | Example TCP/IP server using QIO system services that accepts connections from the auxiliary server. |
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TCPIP$TCP_CLIENT_QIO.MAR
TCPIP$TCP_SERVER_QIO.MAR |
Example TCP/IP client and server using QIO system services and the MACRO-32 programming language. |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
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TCPIP$UDP_SERVER_SOCK.C
TCPIP$UDP_CLIENT_SOCK.C |
Example UDP/IP client and server using the Sockets API. |
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TCPIP$UDP_SERVER_QIO.C
TCPIP$UDP_CLIENT_QIO.C |
Example UDP/IP client and server using QIO system services. |
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TCPIP$UDP_CLIENT_QIO.MAR
TCPIP$UDP_SERVER_QIO.MAR |
Example UDP/IP client and server using QIO system services and the MACRO-32 programming language. |
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