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<H1>UDPLITE</H1>
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (7)<BR>Updated: 2017-09-15<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
udplite - Lightweight User Datagram Protocol
<A NAME="lbAC">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>#include &lt;<A HREF="file:///usr/include/sys/socket.h">sys/socket.h</A>&gt;</B>
<BR>
<P>
<B>sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDPLITE);</B>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
This is an implementation of the Lightweight User Datagram Protocol
(UDP-Lite), as described in RFC&nbsp;3828.
<P>
UDP-Lite is an extension of UDP (RFC&nbsp;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.
<P>
The variable-length checksum coverage is set via a
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+setsockopt">setsockopt</A></B>(2)
option.
If this option is not set, the only difference from UDP is
in using a different IP protocol identifier (IANA number 136).
<P>
The UDP-Lite implementation is a full extension of
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+udp">udp</A></B>(7)---that
is, it shares the same API and API behavior, and in addition
offers two socket options to control the checksum coverage.
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<H3>Address format</H3>
UDP-Litev4 uses the
<I>sockaddr_in</I>
address format described in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+ip">ip</A></B>(7).
UDP-Litev6 uses the
<I>sockaddr_in6</I>
address format described in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+ipv6">ipv6</A></B>(7).
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<H3>Socket options</H3>
To set or get a UDP-Lite socket option, call
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+getsockopt">getsockopt</A></B>(2)
to read or
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+setsockopt">setsockopt</A></B>(2)
to write the option with the option level argument set to
<B>IPPROTO_UDPLITE</B>.
In addition, all
<B>IPPROTO_UDP</B>
socket options are valid on a UDP-Lite socket.
See
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+udp">udp</A></B>(7)
for more information.
<P>
The following two options are specific to UDP-Lite.
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="1"><B>UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV</B>
<DD>
This option sets the sender checksum coverage and takes an
<I>int</I>
as argument, with a checksum coverage value in the range 0..2^16-1.
<DT id="2"><DD>
A value of 0 means that the entire datagram is always covered.
Values from 1-7 are illegal (RFC&nbsp;3828, 3.1) and are rounded up to
the minimum coverage of 8.
<DT id="3"><DD>
With regard to IPv6 jumbograms (RFC&nbsp;2675), the UDP-Litev6 checksum
coverage is limited to the first 2^16-1 octets, as per RFC&nbsp;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
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+getsockopt">getsockopt</A></B>(2).
<DT id="4"><B>UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV</B>
<DD>
This is the receiver-side analogue and uses the same argument format
and value range as
<B>UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV</B>.
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</I>
than the specified coverage value.
<DT id="5"><DD>
When the value of
<B>UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV</B>
exceeds the actual packet coverage, incoming packets are silently dropped,
but may generate a warning message in the system log.
</DL>
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<H2>ERRORS</H2>
All errors documented for
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+udp">udp</A></B>(7)
may be returned.
UDP-Lite does not add further errors.
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<H2>FILES</H2>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="6"><I>/proc/net/snmp</I>
<DD>
Basic UDP-Litev4 statistics counters.
<DT id="7"><I>/proc/net/snmp6</I>
<DD>
Basic UDP-Litev6 statistics counters.
</DL>
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<H2>VERSIONS</H2>
UDP-Litev4/v6 first appeared in Linux 2.6.20.
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<H2>BUGS</H2>
Where glibc support is missing, the following definitions are needed:
<P>
#define IPPROTO_UDPLITE 136
#define UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV 10
#define UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV 11
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+ip">ip</A></B>(7),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+ipv6">ipv6</A></B>(7),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+socket">socket</A></B>(7),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+udp">udp</A></B>(7)
<P>
RFC&nbsp;3828 for the Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite).
<P>
<I>Documentation/networking/udplite.txt</I>
in the Linux kernel source tree
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<H2>COLOPHON</H2>
This page is part of release 5.05 of the Linux
<I>man-pages</I>
project.
A description of the project,
information about reporting bugs,
and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
<A HREF="https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.">https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.</A>
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<A NAME="index">&nbsp;</A><H2>Index</H2>
<DL>
<DT id="8"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="9"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="10"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DL>
<DT id="11"><A HREF="#lbAE">Address format</A><DD>
<DT id="12"><A HREF="#lbAF">Socket options</A><DD>
</DL>
<DT id="13"><A HREF="#lbAG">ERRORS</A><DD>
<DT id="14"><A HREF="#lbAH">FILES</A><DD>
<DT id="15"><A HREF="#lbAI">VERSIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="16"><A HREF="#lbAJ">BUGS</A><DD>
<DT id="17"><A HREF="#lbAK">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="18"><A HREF="#lbAL">COLOPHON</A><DD>
</DL>
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