udplite — Lightweight User Datagram Protocol
#include <sys/socket.h>
sockfd = socket( |
AF_INET, |
| SOCK_DGRAM, | |
IPPROTO_UDPLITE); |
This is an implementation of the Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite), as described in RFC 3828.
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.
The variable-length checksum coverage is set via a setsockopt(2) option. If this option is not set, the only difference to UDP is in using a different IP protocol identifier (IANA number 136).
The UDP-Lite implementation is a full extension of udp(7), i.e., it shares the same API and API behaviour, and in addition offers two socket options to control the checksum coverage.
UDP-Litev4 uses the sockaddr_in address format
described in ip(7). UDP-Litev6 uses
the sockaddr_in6
address format described in ipv6(7).
To set or get a UDP-Lite socket option, call getsockopt(2) to read or
setsockopt(2) to write
the option with the option level argument set to IPPROTO_UDPLITE. In addition,
all IPPROTO_UDP socket
options are valid on a UDP-Lite socket. See udp(7) for more
information.
The following two options are specific to UDP-Lite.
UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOVThis option sets the sender checksum coverage and
takes an int as argument, with
a checksum coverage value in the range 0..2^16-1.
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.
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 getsockopt(2).
UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOVThis is the receiver-side analogue and uses the
same argument format and value range as 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 less than the
specified coverage value.
When the value of UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV exceeds the
actual packet coverage, incoming packets are silently
dropped, but may generate a warning message in the
system log.
Where glibc support is missing, the following definitions are needed:
#define IPPROTO_UDPLITE 136 #define UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV 10 #define UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV 11
/proc/net/snmp − basic
UDP-Litev4 statistics counters.
/proc/net/snmp6 −
basic UDP-Litev6 statistics counters.
udp(7), ip(7), ipv6(7), socket(7)
RFC 3828 for the Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)
Documentation/networking/udplite.txt
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