module Socket::Constants

Interface to kernel crypto API

AppleTalk protocol

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AX.25 protocol

Bluetooth low-level socket protocol

Controller Area Network automotive bus protocol

CCITT (now ITU-T) protocols

MIT CHAOS protocols

Computer Network Technology

Connection-oriented IP

Datakit protocol

DECnet protocol

DECnet protocol

DEC Direct Data Link Interface protocol

CCITT (ITU-T) E.164 recommendation

European Computer Manufacturers protocols

NSC Hyperchannel protocol

InfiniBand native addressing

ARPANET IMP protocol

IPv4 protocol

IPv6 protocol

IPX protocol

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO Open Systems Interconnection protocols

KCM (kernel connection multiplexor) interface

Key management protocol, originally developed for usage with IPsec

Local Area Transport protocol

Link layer interface

Logical link control (IEEE 802.2 LLC) protocol

Host-internal protocols

Maximum address family for this platform

Multiprotocol Label Switching

Native ATM access

Network driver raw access

NetBIOS

Netgraph sockets

Kernel user interface device

XEROX NS protocols

ISO Open Systems Interconnection protocols

Direct link-layer access

Point-to-Point Protocol

Generic PPP transport layer, for setting up L2 tunnels (L2TP and PPPoE)

PARC Universal Packet protocol

Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol

Internal routing protocol

Simple Internet Protocol

IBM SNA protocol

TIPC, “cluster domain sockets” protocol

UNIX sockets

Unspecified protocol, any supported address family

VSOCK (originally “VMWare VSockets”) protocol for hypervisor-guest communication

XDP (express data path) interface

Accept only if any address is assigned

Allow all addresses

Fill in the canonical name

Default flags for getaddrinfo

Valid flag mask for getaddrinfo (not for application use)

Prevent host name resolution

Prevent service name resolution

Get address to use with bind()

Accept IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses

Accept IPv4 mapped addresses if the kernel supports it

Address family for hostname not supported

Temporary failure in name resolution

Invalid flags

Invalid value for hints

Non-recoverable failure in name resolution

Address family not supported

Maximum error code from getaddrinfo

Memory allocation failure

No address associated with hostname

Hostname nor servname, or not known

Argument buffer overflow

Resolved protocol is unknown

Servname not supported for socket type

Socket type not supported

System error returned in errno

802.1Q VLAN device

receive all multicast packets

use alternate physical connection

auto media select active

bonding master or slave

device used as bridge port

broadcast address valid

flags not changeable

unconfigurable using ioctl(2)

turn on debugging

disable netpoll at run-time

disallow bridging this ether dev

driver signals dormant

tx hardware queue is full

resources allocated

interface is winding down

dialup device with changing addresses

ethernet bridging device

echo sent packets

ISATAP interface (RFC4214)

per link layer defined bit 0

per link layer defined bit 1

per link layer defined bit 2

hardware address change when it’s running

loopback net

driver signals L1 up

device used as macvlan port

master of a load balancer

bonding master, 802.3ad.

bonding master, balance-alb.

bonding master, ARP mon in use

user-requested monitor mode

supports multicast

no address resolution protocol

avoid use of trailers

transmission in progress

device used as Open vSwitch datapath port

point-to-point link

can set media type

user-requested promisc mode

receive all packets

interface is being renamed

routing entry installed

resources allocated

can’t hear own transmissions

slave of a load balancer

bonding slave not the curr. active

need ARPs for validation

interface manages own routes

static ARP

sending custom FCS

used as team port

sharing skbs on transmit

unicast filtering

interface is up

volatile flags

WAN HDLC device

dev_hard_start_xmit() is allowed to release skb->dst

Maximum interface name size

Maximum interface name size

Multicast group for all systems on this subset

A socket bound to INADDR_ANY receives packets from all interfaces and sends from the default IP address

The network broadcast address

The loopback address

The last local network multicast group

A bitmask for matching no valid IP address

The reserved multicast group

Maximum length of an IPv6 address string

Maximum length of an IPv4 address string

Default minimum address for bind or connect

Default maximum address for bind or connect

IP6 auth header

IP6 destination option

Exterior Gateway Protocol

ISO cnlp

IP6 Encapsulated Security Payload

IP6 fragmentation header

Gateway to Gateway Protocol

“hello” routing protocol

IP6 hop-by-hop options

Control message protocol

ICMP6

XNS IDP

Group Management Protocol

Dummy protocol for IP

IP6 header

Maximum IPPROTO constant

Sun net disk protocol

IP6 no next header

PARC Universal Packet protocol

Raw IP packet

IP6 routing header

TCP

ISO transport protocol class 4

UDP

Xpress Transport Protocol

Checksum offset for raw sockets

Don’t fragment packets

Destination option

Hop limit

Hop-by-hop option

Join a group membership

Leave a group membership

IP6 multicast hops

IP6 multicast interface

IP6 multicast loopback

Next hop address

Retrieve current path MTU

Receive packet information with datagram

Receive all IP6 options for response

Receive hop limit with datagram

Receive hop-by-hop options

Receive current path MTU with datagram

Receive destination IP address and incoming interface

Receive routing header

Receive traffic class

Allows removal of sticky routing headers

Allows removal of sticky destination options header

Routing header type 0

Specify the traffic class

IP6 unicast hops

Use the minimum MTU size

Only bind IPv6 with a wildcard bind

Add a multicast group membership

Add a multicast group membership

Block IPv4 multicast packets with a give source address

Default multicast loopback

Default multicast TTL

Don’t fragment packets

Drop a multicast group membership

Drop a multicast group membership

Allow binding to nonexistent IP addresses

Header is included with data

IPsec security policy

Maximum number multicast groups a socket can join

Minimum TTL allowed for received packets

Multicast source filtering

The Maximum Transmission Unit of the socket

Path MTU discovery

IP multicast interface

IP multicast loopback

IP multicast TTL

Force outgoing broadcast datagrams to have the undirected broadcast address

IP options to be included in packets

Retrieve security context with datagram

Receive packet information with datagrams

Receive packet options with datagrams

Always send DF frames

Never send DF frames

Use per-route hints

Set the port range for sockets with unspecified port numbers

Receive IP destination address with datagram

Enable extended reliable error message passing

Receive interface information with datagrams

Receive all IP options with datagram

Receive all IP options for response

Receive link-layer address with datagrams

Receive TOS with incoming packets

Receive IP TTL with datagrams

IP options to be included in datagrams

Notify transit routers to more closely examine the contents of an IP packet

Source address for outgoing UDP datagrams

IP type-of-service

Transparent proxy

IP time-to-live

Unblock IPv4 multicast packets with a give source address

Connect blocks until accepted

Pass credentials to receiver

Retrieve peer credentials

Block multicast packets from this source

Exclusive multicast source filter

Inclusive multicast source filter

Join a multicast group

Join a multicast source group

Leave a multicast group

Leave a multicast source group

Multicast source filtering

Unblock multicast packets from this source

End of record

Confirm path validity

Control data lost before delivery

Send without using the routing tables

This message should be non-blocking

Data completes connection

Data completes record

Fetch message from error queue

Reduce step of the handshake process

Start of a hold sequence. Dumps to so_temp

Data ready to be read

Hold fragment in so_temp

Sender will send more

Do not generate SIGPIPE

Process out-of-band data

Peek at incoming message

Wait for full request

Data remains in the current packet

Send the packet in so_temp

Data discarded before delivery

Wait for full request or error

The service specified is a datagram service (looks up UDP ports)

Maximum length of a hostname

Maximum length of a service name

A name is required

An FQDN is not required for local hosts, return only the local part

Return a numeric address

Return the service name as a digit string

Interface to kernel crypto API

AppleTalk protocol

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AX.25 protocol

Bluetooth low-level socket protocol

Controller Area Network automotive bus protocol

CCITT (now ITU-T) protocols

MIT CHAOS protocols

Computer Network Technology

Connection-oriented IP

Datakit protocol

DECnet protocol

DECnet protocol

DEC Direct Data Link Interface protocol

European Computer Manufacturers protocols

NSC Hyperchannel protocol

InfiniBand native addressing

ARPANET IMP protocol

IPv4 protocol

IPv6 protocol

IPX protocol

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO Open Systems Interconnection protocols

KCM (kernel connection multiplexor) interface

Key management protocol, originally developed for usage with IPsec

Local Area Transport protocol

Link layer interface

Logical link control (IEEE 802.2 LLC) protocol

Host-internal protocols

Maximum address family for this platform

Multiprotocol Label Switching

Native ATM access

Network driver raw access

NetBIOS

Netgraph sockets

Kernel user interface device

XEROX NS protocols

ISO Open Systems Interconnection protocols

Direct link-layer access

Point-to-Point Protocol

Generic PPP transport layer, for setting up L2 tunnels (L2TP and PPPoE)

PARC Universal Packet protocol

Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol

Internal routing protocol

Simple Internet Protocol

IBM SNA protocol

TIPC, “cluster domain sockets” protocol

UNIX sockets

Unspecified protocol, any supported address family

VSOCK (originally “VMWare VSockets”) protocol for hypervisor-guest communication

XDP (express data path) interface

eXpress Transfer Protocol

Timestamp (bintime)

The sender’s credentials

Process credentials

Access rights

Timestamp (timeval)

Timestamp (timespec list) (Linux 2.6.30)

Timespec (timespec)

User credentials

Wifi status (Linux 3.3)

Shut down the reading side of the socket

Shut down the both sides of the socket

Shut down the writing side of the socket

Set the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag on the new file descriptor.

A datagram socket provides connectionless, unreliable messaging

Set the O_NONBLOCK file status flag on the open file description (see open(2)) referred to by the new file descriptor.

Device-level packet access

A raw socket provides low-level access for direct access or implementing network protocols

A reliable datagram socket provides reliable delivery of messages

A sequential packet socket provides sequenced, reliable two-way connection for datagrams

A stream socket provides a sequenced, reliable two-way connection for a byte stream

AppleTalk socket options

AX.25 socket options

IP socket options

IPX socket options

Socket-level options

TCP socket options

UDP socket options

Maximum connection requests that may be queued for a socket

Background socket priority

Interactive socket priority

Normal socket priority

Socket has had listen() called on it

There is an accept filter

Bypass zone boundaries

Attach an accept filter

Only send packets from the given interface

Receive timestamp with datagrams (bintime)

Query supported BPF extensions (Linux 3.14)

Permit sending of broadcast messages

Set the threshold in microseconds for low latency polling (Linux 3.11)

Debug info recording

Detach an accept filter

Domain given for socket() (Linux 2.6.32)

Use interface addresses

Retain unread data

Get and clear the error status

Obtain filter set by SO_ATTACH_FILTER (Linux 3.8)

Keep connections alive

Linger on close if data is present

Lock the filter attached to a socket (Linux 3.9)

Mandatory Access Control exemption for unlabeled peers

Set the mark for mark-based routing (Linux 2.6.25)

Cap the rate computed by transport layer. [bytes per second] (Linux 3.13)

Install socket-level Network Kernel Extension

Set netns of a socket (Linux 3.4)

Don’t SIGPIPE on EPIPE

Disable checksums

Get first packet byte count

Leave received out-of-band data in-line

Receive SCM_CREDENTIALS messages

Toggle security context passing (Linux 2.6.18)

Set the peek offset (Linux 3.4)

The credentials of the foreign process connected to this socket

Name of the connecting user

Obtain the security credentials (Linux 2.6.2)

The protocol-defined priority for all packets on this socket

Protocol given for socket() (Linux 2.6.32)

Receive buffer size

Receive buffer size without rmem_max limit (Linux 2.6.14)

Receive low-water mark

Receive timeout

Receive user credentials with datagram

Allow local address reuse

Allow local address and port reuse

Toggle cmsg for number of packets dropped (Linux 2.6.33)

Make select() detect socket error queue with errorfds (Linux 3.10)

Send buffer size

Send buffer size without wmem_max limit (Linux 2.6.14)

Send low-water mark

Send timeout

Receive timestamp with datagrams (timeval)

Time stamping of incoming and outgoing packets (Linux 2.6.30)

Receive nanosecond timestamp with datagrams (timespec)

Get the socket type

Bypass hardware when possible

Give a hint when more data is ready

OOB data is wanted in MSG_FLAG on receive

Toggle cmsg for wifi status (Linux 3.3)

TCP congestion control algorithm (Linux 2.6.13, glibc 2.6)

TCP Cookie Transactions (Linux 2.6.33, glibc 2.18)

Don’t send partial frames (Linux 2.2, glibc 2.2)

Don’t notify a listening socket until data is ready (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Reduce step of the handshake process (Linux 3.7, glibc 2.18)

Retrieve information about this socket (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Maximum number of keepalive probes allowed before dropping a connection (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Idle time before keepalive probes are sent (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Time between keepalive probes (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Lifetime of orphaned FIN_WAIT2 sockets (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Set maximum segment size

Use MD5 digests (RFC2385, Linux 2.6.20, glibc 2.7)

Don’t delay sending to coalesce packets

Don’t use TCP options

Don’t push the last block of write

Sequence of a queue for repair mode (Linux 3.5, glibc 2.18)

Enable quickack mode (Linux 2.4.4, glibc 2.3)

Repair mode (Linux 3.5, glibc 2.18)

Options for repair mode (Linux 3.5, glibc 2.18)

Queue for repair mode (Linux 3.5, glibc 2.18)

Number of SYN retransmits before a connection is dropped (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Duplicated acknowledgments handling for thin-streams (Linux 2.6.34, glibc 2.18)

Linear timeouts for thin-streams (Linux 2.6.34, glibc 2.18)

TCP timestamp (Linux 3.9, glibc 2.18)

Max timeout before a TCP connection is aborted (Linux 2.6.37, glibc 2.18)

Clamp the size of the advertised window (Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2)

Don’t send partial frames (Linux 2.5.44, glibc 2.11)