Registered protocol family ?

[Guillaume Dargaud]

Hello all,
where can I find more info on what those numbers mean ?

# dmesg | grep family
[ 0.111792] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.167374] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.716058] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.720180] NET: Registered protocol family 17

Thanks
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[Lew Pitcher]

On March 12, 2009 12:29, in comp.os.linux.networking, Guillaume Dargaud
(use_the_form_on...@www.gdargaud.net) wrote:

> Hello all,
> where can I find more info on what those numbers mean ?

You can start in /etc/protocols

> # dmesg | grep family
> [ 0.111792] NET: Registered protocol family 16

chaos 16 CHAOS # Chaos

> [ 0.167374] NET: Registered protocol family 2

igmp 2 IGMP # internet group management protocol

> [ 0.716058] NET: Registered protocol family 1

icmp 1 ICMP # internet control message protocol

> [ 0.720180] NET: Registered protocol family 17

udp 17 UDP # user datagram protocol

After that, you can check out the various RFCs at http://www.rfc-editor.org/
and the documentation at the Intenet Engineering Task Force (ietf.org)

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[Balwinder S Dheeman]

On 03/12/2009 09:59 PM, Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
> Hello all,
> where can I find more info on what those numbers mean ?
>
> # dmesg | grep family
> [ 0.111792] NET: Registered protocol family 16
> [ 0.167374] NET: Registered protocol family 2
> [ 0.716058] NET: Registered protocol family 1
> [ 0.720180] NET: Registered protocol family 17
>

Here is an excerpt from a Debian machine's /etc/modprobe.d/aliases file:

## network protocols ##
# alias net-pf-1 unix
# alias net-pf-2 ipv4
# alias net-pf-3 ax25
# alias net-pf-4 ipx
# alias net-pf-5 appletalk
# alias net-pf-6 netrom
alias net-pf-7 bridge
# alias net-pf-8 atm
# alias net-pf-9 x25
# alias net-pf-10 ipv6
# alias net-pf-11 rose
# alias net-pf-12 decnet
# alias net-pf-13 NETBEUI
# alias net-pf-15 af_key
# alias net-pf-16 af_netlink
# alias net-pf-17 af_packet
# alias net-pf-18 ASH
# alias net-pf-19 econet
# alias net-pf-20 atm
# alias net-pf-22 SNA
# alias net-pf-23 irda
# alias net-pf-24 pppoe
alias net-pf-25 wanrouter
# alias net-pf-26 llc2
# alias net-pf-31 bluetooth
# alias net-pf-33 af_rxrpc

the pf above represents Protocol Family.

Hope that helps,
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[Allen Kistler]

Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> On 03/12/2009 09:59 PM, Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> where can I find more info on what those numbers mean ?
>>
>> # dmesg | grep family
>> [ 0.111792] NET: Registered protocol family 16
>> [ 0.167374] NET: Registered protocol family 2
>> [ 0.716058] NET: Registered protocol family 1
>> [ 0.720180] NET: Registered protocol family 17
>>
>
> Here is an excerpt from a Debian machine's /etc/modprobe.d/aliases file:
>

> [snip]

Fedora and Red Hat put the same info in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist.

However, whatever your distro, if you're using anything other than a
prehistoric modprobe, the info should be in some file in /etc/modprobe.d
(or in /etc/modprobe.conf itself).

[Guillaume Dargaud]

> However, whatever your distro, if you're using anything other than a
> prehistoric modprobe, the info should be in some file in /etc/modprobe.d
> (or in /etc/modprobe.conf itself).

It was an embedded system, so none of those fancy modprobe thingies. But
your replies got us on the right track to find and solve the issues (missing
options in .config and in uClibc).
Thanks.