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<title>Socket protocols</title>
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<h1 class="topictitle1">Socket protocols</h1>
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<div><p>Protocols provide the network transportation of an application's
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data from one machine to another (or from one process to another within the
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same machine).</p>
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<p>The application specifies the transport provider on the <em>protocol</em> parameter
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of the<span class="apiname"> socket()</span> function.</p>
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<p>For the AF_INET address family, more than one transport
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provider is allowed. The protocols of Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and
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TCP/IP can be active on the same listening socket at the same time. The ALWANYNET
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(Allow ANYNET support) network attribute allows a customer to select whether
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a transport other than TCP/IP can be used for AF_INET socket applications.
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This network attribute can be either *YES or *NO. The default value is *NO.</p>
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<p>For example, if the current status (the default status) is *NO, the use
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of AF_INET over an SNA transport is not active. If AF_INET sockets are to
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be used over a TCP/IP transport only, the ALWANYNET status should be set to
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*NO to improve CPU utilization.</p>
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<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> The ALWANYNET network attribute also affects APPC over TCP/IP. </div>
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<p>The AF_INET and AF_INET6 sockets over TCP/IP can also specify
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a type of SOCK_RAW, which means that the socket communicates directly with
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the network layer known as Internet Protocol (IP). The TCP or UDP transport
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providers normally communicate with this layer. When you use SOCK_RAW sockets,
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the application program specifies any protocol between 0 and 255 (except the
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TCP and UDP protocols). This protocol number then flows in the IP headers
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when machines are communicating on the network. In effect, the application
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program is the transport provider, because it must provide for all the transport
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services that UDP or TCP transports normally provide.</p>
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<p>For the AF_UNIX and AF_UNIX_CCSID address families, a protocol
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specification is not really meaningful because there are no protocol standards
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involved. The communications mechanism between two processes on the same machine
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is specific to the machine.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="characteristics.htm" title="Sockets share some common characteristics.">Socket characteristics</a></div>
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<div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br />
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<div><a href="../rzahj/rzahjconappcpi.htm">Configuring APPC, APPN, and HPR</a></div>
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