tcpserver(1)
NAME
tcpserver - accept incoming TCP connections
SYNOPSIS
tcpserver [ -146jpPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -climit ] [ -xrules.cdb ] [ -Bbanner ] [ -ggid ] [ -uuid ] [ -bbacklog ] [ -llocalname ] [ -ttimeout ] [ -Iinterface ] host port program [ arg ... ]
DESCRIPTION
tcpserver waits for connections from TCP clients. For each connection, it runs program with the given arguments, with descriptor 0 reading from the network and descriptor 1 writing to the network. The server's address is given by host and port. host can be 0, allowing connections from any host; or a particular IP address, allowing connections only to that address; or a host name, allowing connections to the first IP address for that host. port may be a numeric port number or a port name. If port is 0, tcpserver will choose a free port. tcpserver sets up several environment variables, as described in tcp- environ(5). tcpserver exits when it receives SIGTERM.
OPTIONS
-climit
Do not handle more than limit simultaneous connections. If
there are limit simultaneous copies of program running, defer
acceptance of a new connection until one copy finishes. limit
must be a positive integer. Default: 40.
-xrules.cdb
Follow the rules compiled into rules.cdb by tcprules. These
rules may specify setting environment variables or rejecting
connections from bad sources.
tcpserver does not read rules.cdb into memory; you can rerun
tcprules to change tcpserver's behavior on the fly.
-Bbanner
Write banner to the network immediately after each connection is
made. tcpserver writes banner before looking up TCPREMOTEHOST,
before looking up TCPREMOTEINFO, and before checking rules.cdb.
This feature can be used to reduce latency in protocols where
the client waits for a greeting from the server.
-ggid Switch group ID to gid after preparing to receive connections.
gid must be a positive integer.
-uuid Switch user ID to uid after preparing to receive connections.
uid must be a positive integer.
-1 After preparing to receive connections, print the local port
number to standard output.
-4 Fall back to IPv4 sockets. This is necessary for terminally
broken systems like OpenBSD which will not let IPv6 sockets
connect to V4-mapped IPv6 addresses. Please note that this also
applies to DNS lookups, so you will have to use an DNS resolver
with an IPv6 address to accept IPv6 connections. Use DNSCACHEIP
to set the DNS resolver IP dynamically.
-6 Force IPv6 mode in UCSPI environment variables, even for IPv4
connections. This will set $PROTO to TCP6 and put IPv4-mapped
IPv6 addresses in TCPLOCALIP and TCPREMOTEIP.
-Iinterface
Bind to the network interface interface ("eth0" on Linux, for
example). This is only defined and needed for IPv6 link-local
addresses.
-bbacklog
Allow up to backlog simultaneous SYN_RECEIVEDs. Default: 20.
On some systems, backlog is silently limited to 5. See
listen(2) for more details.
-o Leave IP options alone. If the client is sending packets along
an IP source route, send packets back along the same route.
-O (Default.) Kill IP options. A client can still use source
routing to connect and to send data, but packets will be sent
back along the default route.
-d (Default.) Delay sending data for a fraction of a second
whenever the remote host is responding slowly, to make better
use of the network.
-D Never delay sending data; enable TCP_NODELAY. This is
appropriate for interactive connections.
-q Quiet. Do not print any messages.
-Q (Default.) Print error messages.
-v Verbose. Print all available messages.
DATA-GATHERING OPTIONS
-p Paranoid. After looking up the remote host name, look up the IP
addresses for that name, and make sure one of them matches
TCPREMOTEIP. If none of them do, unset TCPREMOTEHOST.
-P (Default.) Not paranoid.
-h (Default.) Look up the remote host name and set TCPREMOTEHOST.
-H Do not look up the remote host name.
-llocalname
Do not look up the local host name; use localname for
TCPLOCALHOST.
-r (Default.) Attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote
host.
-R Do not attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host.
-ttimeout
Give up on the TCPREMOTEINFO connection attempt after timeout
seconds. Default: 26.
SEE ALSO
argv0(1), fixcr(1), recordio(1), tcpclient(1), tcprules(1), listen(2), tcp-environ(5) tcpserver(1)
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