IRIX^™ Network Programming Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

Audience for This Guide

Typographic Conventions

Chapter Summaries

Documentation Sources

Additional Reading

1. Network Programming Overview

Introduction to IRIX Network Programming

The Internet Protocol Suite

Compiling 4.3BSD and RPC Programs

2. Transport Layer Interface

Introduction

Network Selection and Name-to-Address Mapping

OSI Reference Model

Overview of the Transport Interface

Introduction to Connection-Mode Service

Introduction to Connectionless-Mode Service

A Read/Write Interface

Advanced Topics

State Transitions

Guidelines for Protocol Independence

Some Examples

Error Messages

3. Sockets Migration and Sockets-to-TLI Conversion

Introduction

Connection Mode

Connectionless Mode

Synchronous and Asynchronous Modes

Error Handling

Sockets-to-TLI Conversion

4. Sockets-based Inter-Process Communication

Sockets Basics

Network Library Routines

The Client/Server Model

Advanced Topics

5. Introduction to RPC Programming

Overview of Remote Procedure Calls

The XDR Standard

The Layers of RPC

The rpcgen Protocol Compiler

Assigning RPC Program Numbers

The Port Mapper Program

6. Programming with rpcgen

Introduction to the rpcgen Compiler

Changing Local Procedures to Remote Procedures

Generating XDR Routines

The C Preprocessor

rpcgen Programming Notes

7. RPC Programming Guide

The Layers of RPC

Other RPC Features

More Examples

8. XDR and RPC Language Structure

XDR Language

RPC Language

9. XDR Programming Notes

Overview of XDR Programming

The XDR Library

XDR Library Primitives

XDR Operation Directions

XDR Stream Access

XDR Stream Implementation

Advanced Topics

A. RPC Protocol Specification

RPC Protocol Requirements

RPC Protocol Definition

Authentication Protocols

Record Marking Standard

Port Mapper Program Protocol

B. XDR Protocol Specification

Basic Block Size

XDR Data Types

Common Questions about XDR

Index