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d6623498 1.\" -*-nroff-*-
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2.\".
3.\" Manual for the administration protocol
4.\"
5.\" (c) 2008 Straylight/Edgeware
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25.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
e99aedcf 26.so ../common/defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@
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28.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
0647ba7c 29.TH tripe-admin 5tripe "18 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption"
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31.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
32.SH "NAME"
33.
d6623498 34tripe-admin \- administrator commands for TrIPE
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36.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
37.SH "DESCRIPTION"
38.
d6623498 39This manual page describes the administration interface provided by the
40.BR tripe (8)
41daemon.
42.PP
43The
44.BR tripectl (8)
45program can be used either interactively or in scripts to communicate
46with the server using this interface. Alternatively, simple custom
47clients can be written in scripting languages such as Perl, Python or
48Tcl, or more advanced clients such as GUI monitors can be written in C
49with little difficulty.
50.PP
37941236 51Administration commands use a textual protocol. Each client command or
52server response consists of a line of ASCII text terminated by a single
53linefeed character. No command may be longer than 255 characters.
d6623498 54.SS "General structure"
55Each command or response line consists of a sequence of
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56whitespace-separated tokens. The number and nature of whitespace
57characters separating two tokens in a client command is not significant;
58the server always uses a single space character. The first token in a
d6623498 59line is a
60.I keyword
61identifying the type of command or response contained. Keywords in
62client commands are not case-sensitive; the server always uses uppercase
63for its keywords.
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64.PP
65In order to allow tokens to contain internal whitespace, a quoting
66mechanism is provided. Whitespace within matched pairs of quotes \(en
67either single
68.RB ` ' '
69or double
70.RB ` """" '
71\(en is considered to be internal. Any character (other than newline)
72may be escaped by preceding it with a backslash
73.RB ` \e ':
74in particular, this can be used to include quote characters. It is
75impossible for a token to contain a newline character.
76.PP
77On output, the server will use double quotes when necessary.
de014da6 78.SS "Simple commands"
79For simple client command, the server responds with zero or more
d6623498 80.B INFO
81lines, followed by either an
82.B OK
83line or a
84.B FAIL
85line. Each
86.B INFO
87provides information requested in the command. An
88.B OK
89response contains no further data. A
90.B FAIL
3cdc3f3a 91code is followed by a machine-readable explanation of why the command
d6623498 92failed.
93.PP
de014da6 94Simple command processing is strictly synchronous: the server reads a
95command, processes it, and responds, before reading the next command.
96All commands can be run as simple commands. Long-running commands
97(e.g.,
98.B ADD
99and
100.BR PING )
101block the client until they finish, but the rest of the server continues
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102running. See
103.B "Background commands"
104to find out how to issue long-running commands without blocking.
105.SS "Asynchronous broadcasts"
106There are three types of asynchronous broadcast messages which aren't
107associated with any particular command. Clients can select which
108broadcast messages they're interested in using the
109.B WATCH
110command.
de014da6 111.PP
112The
d6623498 113.B WARN
3cdc3f3a 114message contains a machine-readable message warning of an error
d6623498 115encountered while processing a command, unexpected or unusual behaviour
116by a peer, or a possible attack by an adversary. Under normal
de014da6 117conditions, the server shouldn't emit any warnings.
118.PP
119The
d6623498 120.B TRACE
3cdc3f3a 121message contains a human-readable tracing message containing diagnostic
d6623498 122information. Trace messages are controlled using the
123.B \-T
124command-line option to the server, or the
125.B TRACE
126administration command (see below). Support for tracing can be disabled
127when the package is being configured, and may not be available in your
de014da6 128version.
129.PP
130Finally, the
3cdc3f3a 131.B NOTE
132message is a machine-readable notification about some routine but
133interesting event such as creation or destruction of peers.
de014da6 134.SS "Background commands"
135Some commands (e.g.,
136.B ADD
137and
138.BR PING )
139take a long time to complete. To prevent these long-running commands
140from tying up a server connection, they can be run in the background.
141Not all commands can be run like this: the ones that can provide a
142.B \-background
143option, which must be supplied with a
144.IR tag .
145.PP
146A command may fail before it starts running in the background. In this
147case, the server emits a
148.B FAIL
149response, as usual. To indicate that a command has started running in
150the background, the server emits a response of the form
151.BI "BGDETACH " tag \fR,
152where
153.I tag
154is the value passed to the
155.B \-background
156option. From this point on, the server is ready to process more
157commands and reply to them.
158.PP
159Responses to background commands are indicated by a line beginning with
e04c2d50 160one of the tokens
de014da6 161.BR BGOK ,
162.BR BGFAIL ,
163or
164.BR BGINFO ,
e04c2d50 165followed by the command tag. These correspond to the
de014da6 166.BR OK ,
167.BR FAIL ,
168and
169.B INFO
170responses for simple commands:
171.B BGINFO
172indicates information from a background command which has not completed
173yet; and
174.B BGOK
175and
176.B BGFAIL
177indicates that a background command succeeded or failed, respectively.
178.PP
179A background command will never issue an
180.B OK
060ca767 181or
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060ca767 183response: it will always detach and then issue any
184.B BGINFO
185lines followed by
de014da6 186.B BGOK
187response.
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188.SS "Client-provided services"
189.\"* 25 Service-related messages
190An administration client can provide services to other clients.
191Services are given names and versions. A client can attempt to
192.I claim
193a particular service by issuing the
194.B SVCCLAIM
195command. This may fail, for example, if some other client already
196provides the same or later version of the service.
197.PP
198Other clients can issue
199.I "service commands"
200using the
201.B "SVCSUBMIT"
202command; the service provider is expected to handle these commands and
203reply to them.
204.PP
205There are three important asynchronous messages which will be sent to
206service providers.
207.SP
208.BI "SVCCANCEL " jobid
209The named job has been cancelled, either because the issuing client has
210disconnected or explicitly cancelled the job using the
211.B BGCANCEL
212command.
213.SP
214.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
215Another client has claimed a later version of the named
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216.IR service .
217The recipient is no longer the provider of this service.
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218.SP
219.BI "SVCJOB " jobid " " service " " command " " args \fR...
220Announces the arrival of a new job. The
221.I jobid
222is a simple token consisting of alphanumeric characters which
223.B tripe
224uses to identify this job.
225.PP
226The service provider can reply to the job using the commands
227.BR SVCINFO ,
228.B SVCOK
229and
230.BR SVCFAIL .
231The first of these sends an
232.B INFO
233response and leaves the job active; the other two send an
234.B OK
235or
236.B FAIL
237response respectively, and mark the job as being complete.
238.PP
239(Since
240.B SVCSUBMIT
241is a potentially long-running command, it can be run in the background.
242This detail is hidden from service providers:
243.B tripe
244will issue the corresponding
245.BR BG ...
246responses when appropriate.)
3cdc3f3a 247.SS "Network addresses"
83487ded 248A network address is a sequence of tokens. The first is a token
3cdc3f3a 249identifying the network address family. The length of an address and
83487ded 250the meanings of the subsequent tokens depend on the address family.
3cdc3f3a 251Address family tokens are not case-sensitive on input; on output, they
252are always in upper-case.
253.PP
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254The following address families are recognized.
255.TP
256.BI "ANY " address " \fR[" port \fR]
257An address and port number for any supported address family. On output,
258.B tripe
259never uses this form. On input, the
260.I address
261is examined: if it is a numeric address for some recognized address
262family, then it is interpreted as such; otherwise it is looked up using
263the DNS (in the background). The background resolver's address-sorting
264rules apply, and
265.B tripe
266simply takes the first address in the returned list which is of a
267supported address family. Symbolic port numbers are permitted; if
268omitted, the default port 4070 is used.
3cdc3f3a 269.TP
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3cdc3f3a 271An Internet socket, naming an IPv4 address and UDP port. On output, the
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272.I address
273is always in numeric dotted-quad form, and the
274.I port
275is given as a plain decimal number. On input, DNS hostnames and
276symbolic port names are permitted; if omitted, the default port 4070 is
277used.
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279.BI "INET6 " address " \fR[" port \fR]
280An Internet socket, naming an IPv6 address and UDP port. On output, the
281.I address
282is always in numeric hex-and-colons form, and the
283.I port
284is given as a plain decimal number. On input, DNS hostnames and
285symbolic port names may be permitted, depending on how
286.B tripe
287was compiled; if omitted, the default port 4070 is used.
3cdc3f3a 288.PP
78dcf842 289If, on input, no recognized address family token is found, the following
83487ded 290tokens are assumed to represent an
870ff51a 291.B ANY
2acd7cd6 292address. Addresses output by the server always have an address family
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293token, and do not use
294.BR ANY .
295.PP
296Name resolution never blocks the main server, but will block the
297requesting client, unless the command is run in the background.
060ca767 298.SS "Key-value output"
299Some commands (e.g.,
300.B STATS
301and
302.BR SERVINFO )
303produce output in the form of
304.IB key = value
83487ded 305pairs, one per token. Neither the
060ca767 306.I key
307nor the
308.I value
309contain spaces.
310.SS "Trace lists"
311Commands which enable or disable kinds of output (e.g.,
312.B TRACE
313and
314.BR WATCH )
315work in similar ways. They take a single optional argument, which
316consists of a string of letters selecting message types, optionally
317interspersed with
318.RB ` + '
319to enable, or
320.RB ` \- '
321to disable, the subsequently listed types.
322.PP
323If the argument is omitted, the available message types are displayed,
324one to an
325.B INFO
326line, in a fixed-column format. Column zero contains the key letter for
327selecting that message type; column one contains either a space or a
e04c2d50 328.RB ` + '
060ca767 329sign, if the message type is disabled or enabled respectively; and a
330textual description of the message type begins at column 3 and continues
331to the end of the line.
332.PP
333Lowercase key letters control individual message types. Uppercase key
334letters control collections of message types.
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336.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
3cdc3f3a 337.SH "COMMAND REFERENCE"
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13a55605 339.\"* 10 Commands
d6623498 340The commands provided are:
13a55605 341.SP
9986f0b5 342.BI "ADD \fR[" options "\fR] " peer " " address "\fR..."
3cdc3f3a 343Adds a new peer. The peer is given the name
344.IR peer ;
345the peer's public key is assumed to be in the file
346.B keyring.pub
347(or whatever alternative file was specified in the
348.B \-K
349option on the command line). The
350.I address
351is the network address (see above for the format) at which the peer can
78dcf842 352be contacted. The following options are recognized.
42da2a58 353.RS
13a55605 354.\"+opts
42da2a58 355.TP
de014da6 356.BI "\-background " tag
357Run the command in the background, using the given
358.IR tag .
359.TP
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360.B "\-cork"
361Don't send an immediate challenge to the peer; instead, wait until it
362sends us something before responding.
363.TP
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364.B "\-ephemeral"
365The association with the peer is not intended to persist indefinitely.
136f3f44 366When a peer is killed, or the
067aa5f0 367.BR tripe (8)
136f3f44 368daemon is shut down, a
067aa5f0 369.B bye
136f3f44 370packet is to the peer(s). If a peer marked as ephemeral sends us a
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371.B bye
372packet then it is killed (but in this case no further
373.B bye
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374packet is sent). A
375.B bye
376packet from a peer which isn't marked as ephemeral leaves the peer alone
377in the hope that the connection can be reestablished.
067aa5f0 378.TP
0ba8de86 379.BI "\-keepalive " time
380Send a no-op packet if we've not sent a packet to the peer in the last
381.I time
382interval. This is useful for persuading port-translating firewalls to
383believe that the `connection' is still active. The
384.I time
385is expressed as a nonnegative integer followed optionally by
386.BR d ,
387.BR h ,
388.BR m ,
389or
390.BR s
391for days, hours, minutes, or seconds respectively; if no suffix is
392given, seconds are assumed.
393.TP
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394.BI "\-key " tag
395Use the public key
396.I tag
397to authenticate the peer. The default is to use the key tagged
398.IR peer .
399.TP
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400.BI "\-knock \fR[" prefix .\fR] tag
401Send the string
402.RI [ prefix\fB. ] tag
403in
404.B token-rq
405and
406.B knock
407messages to the peer during key-exchange. The string as a whole should
408name the local machine to the peer, and
409.I tag
410should name its public key. When such messages are received from a
411currently unknown peer,
412.BR tripe (8)
413emits a
414.B KNOCK
415notification stating the peer's (claimed) name and address. The server
416will already have verified that the sender is using the peer's private
c60b5015 417key by this point. Prior to version 1.6.0, this option used to imply
067aa5f0 418.BR \-ephemeral .
8362ac1c 419.TP
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420.B "\-mobile"
421The peer is a mobile device, and is likely to change address rapidly.
422If a packet arrives from an unknown address, the server's usual response
423is to log a warning and discard it. If the server knows of any mobile
424peers, however, it will attempt to decrypt the packet using their keys,
425and if one succeeds, the server will update its idea of the peer's
426address and emit an
427.B NEWADDR
c60b5015 428notification. Prior to version 1.6.0, this option used to imply
067aa5f0 429.BR \-ephemeral .
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431.BI "\-priv " tag
432Use the private key
433.I tag
434to authenticate to the peer. The default is to use the key named in the
435.RB ` \-t '
436command-line option, or a key with type
437.B tripe
438or
439.BR tripe-dh :
440see
441.BR tripe (8)
442for the details.
443.TP
0ba8de86 444.BI "\-tunnel " tunnel
42da2a58 445Use the named tunnel driver, rather than the default.
13a55605 446.\"-opts
42da2a58 447.RE
13a55605 448.SP
3cdc3f3a 449.BI "ADDR " peer
450Emits an
451.B INFO
452line reporting the IP address and port number stored for
453.IR peer .
13a55605 454.SP
35c8b547 455.BI "ALGS \fR[" peer \fR]
449991a3 456Emits information about the cryptographic algorithms in use, in
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457key-value form. If a
458.I peer
459is given, then describe the algorithms used in the association with that
460peer; otherwise describe the default algorithms.
449991a3 461.RS
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462.PP
463The keys are as follows.
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464.TP
465.B kx-group
466Type of key-exchange group in use, currently either
467.B ec
468or
469.BR prime .
470.TP
471.B kx-group-order-bits
472Length of the group order, in bits. This gives an approximate measure
473of the group strength.
474.TP
475.B kx-group-elt-bits
476Length of a group element, in bits. This may be useful when analyzing
477protocol traces.
478.TP
479.B hash
480The hash function in use, e.g.,
481.BR sha256 .
482.TP
483.B mgf
484The mask-generating function in use, e.g.,
485.BR whirlpool-mgf .
486.TP
487.B hashsz
488The size of the hash function's output, in octets.
489.TP
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490.B bulk-transform
491The name of the bulk-crypto transform.
492.TP
493.B bulk-overhead
494The amount of overhead, in bytes, caused by the crypto transform.
495.TP
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496.B cipher
497The name of the bulk data cipher in use, e.g.,
498.BR blowfish-cbc .
499.TP
500.B cipher-keysz
501The length of key used by the bulk data cipher, in octets.
502.TP
503.B cipher-blksz
504The block size of the bulk data cipher, or zero if it's not based on a
505block cipher.
506.TP
507.B cipher-data-limit
508The maximum amount of data to be encrypted using a single key. (A new
509key exchange is instigated well before the limit is reached, in order to
510allow for a seamless changeover of keys.)
511.TP
512.B mac
513The message authentication algorithm in use, e.g.,
494a7ac0 514.BR ripemd160-hmac .
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516.B mac-keysz
517The length of the key used by the message authentication algorithm, in
518octets.
519.TP
520.B mac-tagsz
521The length of the message authentication tag, in octets.
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523.B blkc
524The block cipher in use, e.g.,
525.BR blowfish .
526.TP
527.B blkc-keysz
528The length of key used by the block cipher, in octets.
529.TP
530.B blkc-blksz
531The block size of the block cipher.
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532.PP
533The various sizes are useful, for example, when computing the MTU for a
534tunnel interface. If
535.I MTU
536is the MTU of the path to the peer, then the tunnel MTU should be
537.IP
538.I MTU
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539\-
540.I header-length
541\- 9 \-
a93aacce 542.I bulk-overhead
449991a3 543.PP
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544allowing
545.I header-length
546= 20 (IPv4) or 40 (IPv6) bytes of IP header, 8 bytes of UDP header, a
547packet type octet, and the bulk-crypto transform overhead (which
548includes the sequence number).
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549.RE
550.SP
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551.BI "BGCANCEL " tag
552Cancels the background job with the named
553.IR tag .
554.SP
37941236 555.BI "CHECKCHAL " challenge
556Verifies a challenge as being one earlier issued by
557.B GETCHAL
558and not previously either passed to
559.B CHECKCHAL
560or in a greeting message.
13a55605 561.SP
3cdc3f3a 562.B "DAEMON"
563Causes the server to disassociate itself from its terminal and become a
c37b77e0 564background task. This only works once. A notification is issued.
2acd7cd6 565.SP
0ba8de86 566.BI "EPING \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
567Sends an encrypted ping to the peer, and expects an encrypted response.
568This checks that the peer is running (and not being impersonated), and
569that it can encrypt and decrypt packets correctly. Options and
570responses are the same as for the
571.B PING
572command.
13a55605 573.SP
de014da6 574.BI "FORCEKX " peer
575Requests the server to begin a new key exchange with
576.I peer
577immediately.
13a55605 578.SP
37941236 579.B "GETCHAL"
580Requests a challenge. The challenge is returned in an
581.B INFO
582line, as a base64-encoded string. See
583.BR CHECKCHAL .
13a55605 584.SP
37941236 585.BI "GREET " peer " " challenge
586Sends a greeting packet containing the
587.I challenge
588(base-64 encoded) to the named
589.IR peer .
590The expectation is that this will cause the peer to recognize us and
591begin a key-exchange.
13a55605 592.SP
d6623498 593.B "HELP"
594Causes the server to emit an
595.B INFO
596line for each command it supports. Each line lists the command name,
597followed by the names of the arguments. This may be helpful as a memory
598aid for interactive use, or for program clients probing for features.
e04c2d50 599.SP
3cdc3f3a 600.BI "IFNAME " peer
601Emits an
602.B INFO
603line containing the name of the network interface used to collect IP
604packets which are to be encrypted and sent to
605.IR peer .
606Used by configuration scripts so that they can set up routing tables
607appropriately after adding new peers.
13a55605 608.SP
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609.B "JOBS"
610Emits an
611.B INFO
612line giving the tag for each outstanding background job.
613.SP
3cdc3f3a 614.BI "KILL " peer
615Causes the server to forget all about
616.IR peer .
617All keys are destroyed, and no more packets are sent. No notification
618is sent to the peer: if it's important that the peer be notified, you
619must think of a way to do that yourself.
13a55605 620.SP
3cdc3f3a 621.B "LIST"
622For each currently-known peer, an
623.B INFO
624line is written containing the peer's name, as given to
625.BR ADD .
13a55605 626.SP
bd58d532 627.BI "NOTIFY " tokens\fR...
e04c2d50 628Issues a
bd58d532 629.B USER
630notification to all interested administration clients.
13a55605 631.SP
060ca767 632.BI "PEERINFO " peer
633Returns information about a peer, in key-value form. The following keys
634are returned.
635.RS
636.TP
637.B tunnel
638The tunnel driver used for this peer.
639.TP
640.B keepalive
641The keepalive interval, in seconds, or zero if no keepalives are to be
642sent.
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644.B knock
645If present, the string sent to the peer to set up the association; see
646the
647.B \-knock
648option to
649.BR ADD ,
650and the
651.B KNOCK
652notification.
653.TP
48b84569 654.B key
fe2a5dcf 655The (short) key tag being used for the peer, as passed to the
48b84569 656.B ADD
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657command.
658.TP
659.B current-key
660The full key tag of the peer's public key currently being used. This
661may change during the life of the association.
662.TP
663.B private-key
664The private key tag being used for the peer, as passed to the
665.B ADD
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666command, or the
667.RB ` \-t '
668command-line option. If neither of these was given explicitly, the
669private key tag is shown as
670.RB ` (default) ',
671since there is no fixed tag used under these circumstances.
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672.TP
673.B current-private-key
674The full key tag of the private key currently being used for this
675association. This may change during the life of the association.
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677.B corked
678Either
679.B t
680or
681.B nil
682depending on whether or not (respectively) key-exchange is waiting for
683the peer to initiate.
684.TP
685.B mobile
686Either
687.B t
688or
689.B nil
690depending on whether or not (respectively) the peer is expected to
691change its address unpredictably.
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693.B ephemeral
694Either
695.B t
696or
697.B nil
698depending on whether the association with the peer is expected to be
699temporary or persistent (respectively).
060ca767 700.RE
13a55605 701.SP
0ba8de86 702.BI "PING \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
703Send a transport-level ping to the peer. The ping and its response are
704not encrypted or authenticated. This command, possibly in conjunction
705with tracing, is useful for ensuring that UDP packets are actually
706flowing in both directions. See also the
707.B EPING
708command.
709.IP
710An
711.B INFO
712line is printed describing the outcome:
713.RS
714.TP
715.BI "ping-ok " millis
e04c2d50 716A response was received
0ba8de86 717.I millis
718after the ping was sent.
719.TP
720.BI "ping-timeout"
721No response was received within the time allowed.
722.TP
723.BI "ping-peer-died"
724The peer was killed (probably by another admin connection) before a
725response was received.
726.RE
727.IP
728Options recognized for this command are:
729.RS
13a55605 730.\"+opts
0ba8de86 731.TP
de014da6 732.BI "\-background " tag
733Run the command in the background, using the given
734.IR tag .
735.TP
0ba8de86 736.BI "\-timeout " time
737Wait for
738.I time
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739seconds before giving up on a response. The default is 5 seconds. The
740.I time
741is expressed as a nonnegative integer followed optionally by
742.BR d ,
743.BR h ,
744.BR m ,
745or
746.BR s
747for days, hours, minutes, or seconds respectively; if no suffix is
748given, seconds are assumed.
13a55605 749.\"-opts
0ba8de86 750.RE
13a55605 751.SP
3cdc3f3a 752.B "PORT"
5d06f63e 753.RI [ family ]
3cdc3f3a 754Emits an
755.B INFO
756line containing just the number of the UDP port used by the
757.B tripe
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758server, for the given address
759.I family
760(or one chosen arbitrarily if omitted -- though
761.B tripe
762tries to use the same port number consistently so this is not a likely
763problem in practice). If you've allowed your server to allocate a port
764dynamically, this is how to find out which one it chose.
13a55605 765.SP
de014da6 766.B "RELOAD"
767Instructs the server to recheck its keyring files. The server checks
768these periodically anyway but it may be necessary to force a recheck,
769for example after adding a new peer key.
13a55605 770.SP
3cdc3f3a 771.B "QUIT"
772Instructs the server to exit immediately. A warning is sent.
13a55605 773.SP
060ca767 774.B "SERVINFO"
775Returns information about the server, in the form of key-value pairs.
776The following keys are used.
777.RS
778.TP
779.B implementation
780A keyword naming the implementation of the
781.BR tripe (8)
782server. The current implementation is called
783.BR edgeware-tripe .
784.TP
785.B version
786The server's version number, as reported by
787.BR VERSION .
788.TP
789.B daemon
790Either
791.B t
792or
793.BR nil ,
794if the server has or hasn't (respectively) become a daemon.
795.RE
13a55605 796.SP
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797.BI "SETIFNAME " peer " " new-name
798Informs the server that the
799.IR peer 's
800tunnel-interface name has been changed to
801.IR new-name .
802This is useful if firewalling decisions are made based on interface
803names: a setup script for a particular peer can change the name, and
804then update the server's records so that they're accurate.
805.SP
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807Emits a number of
808.B INFO
809lines, each containing one or more statistics in the form
810.IB name = value \fR.
811The statistics-gathering is experimental and subject to change.
812.SP
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813.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
814Attempts to claim the named
815.IR service ,
816offering the given
817.IR version .
818The claim is successful if the service is currently unclaimed, or if
819a version earlier than
820.I version
821is provided; otherwise the command fails with the error
822.BR "service-exists" .
823.SP
824.BI "SVCENSURE " service " \fR[" version \fR]
e04c2d50 825Ensure that
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826.I service
827is provided, and (if specified) to at least the given
828.IR version .
829An error is reported if these conditions are not met; otherwise the
830command succeeds silently.
831.SP
832.BI "SVCFAIL " jobid " " tokens \fR...
833Send a
834.B FAIL
835(or
836.BR BGFAIL )
837response to the service job with the given
838.IR jobid ,
e04c2d50 839passing the
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840.I tokens
841as the reason for failure. The job is closed.
842.SP
843.BI "SVCINFO " jobid " " tokens \fR...
844Send an
845.B INFO
846(or
847.BR BGINFO )
848response to the service job with the given
849.IR jobid ,
850passing the
851.I tokens
852as the info message. The job remains open.
853.SP
854.B "SVCLIST"
855Output a line of the form
856.RS
857.IP
858.B INFO
859.I service
860.I version
861.PP
862for each service currently provided.
863.RE
864.SP
865.BI "SVCOK " jobid
866Send an
867.B OK
868(or
869.BR BGINFO )
870response to the service job with the given
871.IR jobid .
872The job is closed.
873.SP
874.BI "SVCQUERY " service
875Emits a number of
876.B info
877lines in key-value format, describing the named
878.IR service.
879The following keys are used.
880.RS
881.TP
882.B name
883The service's name.
884.TP
885.B version
886The service's version string.
887.RE
888.SP
889.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
890Announce that the client no longer wishes to provide the named
891.IR service .
892.SP
893.BI "SVCSUBMIT \fR[" options "\fR] " service " " command " " arguments \fR...
894Submit a job to the provider of the given
895.IR service ,
896passing it the named
897.I command
898and the given
899.IR arguments .
900The following options are accepted.
901.RS
902.\"+opts
903.TP
904.BI "\-background " tag
905Run the command in the background, using the given
906.IR tag .
907.TP
908.BI "\-version " version
909Ensure that at least the given
910.I version
911of the service is available before submitting the job.
912.RE
913.\"-opts
914.SP
d6623498 915.BR "TRACE " [\fIoptions\fP]
060ca767 916Selects trace outputs: see
e04c2d50 917.B "Trace lists"
060ca767 918above. Message types provided are:
d6623498 919.RS
2d752320 920.PP
d6623498 921Currently, the following tracing options are supported:
922.TP
923.B t
924Tunnel events: reception of packets to be encrypted, and injection of
925successfully-decrypted packets.
926.TP
927.B r
928Peer management events: creation and destruction of peer attachments,
929and arrival of messages.
930.TP
931.B a
932Administration interface: acceptance of new connections, and handling of
933the backgroud name-resolution required by the
934.B ADD
935command.
936.TP
d6623498 937.B s
938Handling of symmetric keysets: creation and expiry of keysets, and
939encryption and decryption of messages.
940.TP
941.B x
942Key exchange: reception, parsing and emission of key exchange messages.
943.TP
944.B m
945Key management: loading keys and checking for file modifications.
37941236 946.TP
947.B l
948Display information about challenge issuing and verification.
949.TP
950.B p
951Display contents of packets sent and received by the tunnel and/or peer
952modules.
953.TP
954.B c
955Display inputs, outputs and intermediate results of cryptographic
956operations. This includes plaintext and key material. Use with
957caution.
958.TP
959.B A
960All of the above.
d6623498 961.PP
962Note that the
963.B p
964(packet contents)
965and
966.B c
967(crypto details)
968outputs provide extra detail for other outputs. Specifying
969.B p
970without
37941236 971.BR r
d6623498 972or
973.B t
974isn't useful; neither is specifying
975.B c
976without one of
977.BR s ,
37941236 978.BR l ,
d6623498 979.B x
980or
981.BR m .
982.RE
13a55605 983.SP
060ca767 984.B "TUNNELS"
985For each available tunnel driver, an
986.B INFO
987line is printed giving its name.
13a55605 988.SP
060ca767 989.B "VERSION"
990Causes the server to emit an
991.B INFO
83487ded 992line stating its software version, as two tokens: the server name, and
060ca767 993its version string. The server name
994.B tripe
995is reserved to the Straylight/Edgeware implementation.
13a55605 996.SP
3cdc3f3a 997.BR "WATCH " [\fIoptions\fP]
bdc44f5b 998Enables or disables asynchronous broadcasts
3cdc3f3a 999.IR "for the current connection only" .
060ca767 1000See
e04c2d50 1001.B "Trace lists"
3cdc3f3a 1002above. The default watch state for the connection the server opens
1003automatically on stdin/stdout is to show warnings and trace messages;
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1004other connections show no asynchronous broadcast messages. (This is
1005done in order to guarantee that a program reading the server's stdout
1006does not miss any warnings.)
3cdc3f3a 1007.RS
1008.PP
060ca767 1009Message types provided are:
3cdc3f3a 1010.TP
1011.B t
1012.B TRACE
1013messages.
1014.TP
1015.B n
1016.B NOTE
1017messages.
1018.TP
1019.B w
1020.B WARN
1021messages.
1022.TP
37941236 1023.B A
3cdc3f3a 1024All of the above.
1025.RE
13a55605 1026.SP
bd58d532 1027.BI "WARN " tokens\fR...
e04c2d50 1028Issues a
bd58d532 1029.B USER
1030warning to all interested administration clients.
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1031.
1032.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
3cdc3f3a 1033.SH "ERROR MESSAGES"
fc916a09 1034.
13a55605 1035.\"* 20 Error messages (FAIL codes)
3cdc3f3a 1036The following
1037.B FAIL
de014da6 1038(or
1039.BR BGFAIL )
3cdc3f3a 1040messages are sent to clients as a result of errors during command
1041processing.
13a55605 1042.SP
3cdc3f3a 1043.BI "already-daemon"
1044(For
1045.BR DAEMON .)
1046The
1047.B tripe
1048server is already running as a daemon.
13a55605 1049.SP
f43df819 1050.BI "bad-addr-syntax " message
37941236 1051(For commands accepting socket addresses.) The address couldn't be
1052understood.
13a55605 1053.SP
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1054.BI "bad-base64 " message
1055(For commands accepting Base64-encoded input.) The Base64-encoded
1056string was invalid.
1057.SP
f43df819 1058.BI "bad-syntax " cmd " " message
3cdc3f3a 1059(For any command.) The command couldn't be understood: e.g., the number
1060of arguments was wrong.
13a55605 1061.SP
83487ded 1062.BI "bad-time-spec " token
0ba8de86 1063The
83487ded 1064.I token
0ba8de86 1065is not a valid time interval specification. Acceptable time
e04c2d50 1066specifications are nonnegative integers followed optionally by
0ba8de86 1067.BR d ,
1068.BR h ,
1069.BR m ,
1070or
1071.BR s ,
1072for days, hours, minutes, or seconds, respectively.
13a55605 1073.SP
3cdc3f3a 1074.BI "bad-trace-option " char
1075(For
1076.BR TRACE .)
1077An unknown trace option was requested.
13a55605 1078.SP
3cdc3f3a 1079.BI "bad-watch-option " char
1080(For
1081.BR WATCH .)
1082An unknown watch option was requested.
13a55605 1083.SP
f43df819 1084.BI "daemon-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1085(For
1086.BR DAEMON .)
1087An error occurred during the attempt to become a daemon, as reported by
1088.IR message .
13a55605 1089.SP
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1090.BI "disabled-address-family " afam
1091(For
1092.B ADD
1093and
1094.BR PORT .)
1095The address family
1096.I afam
1097is supported, but was disabled using command-line arguments.
1098.SP
3cdc3f3a 1099.BI "invalid-port " number
1100(For
1101.BR ADD .)
1102The given port number is out of range.
13a55605 1103.SP
bdc44f5b 1104.BI "not-service-provider " service
e04c2d50 1105(For
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1106.BR SVCRELEASE .)
1107The invoking client is not the current provider of the named
1108.IR service ,
1109and is therefore not allowed to release it.
1110.SP
3cdc3f3a 1111.BI "peer-create-fail " peer
1112(For
1113.BR ADD .)
1114Adding
1115.I peer
1116failed for some reason. A warning should have been emitted explaining
1117why.
13a55605 1118.SP
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1119.BI "peer-addr-exists " address\fR...
1120(For
1121.BR ADD .)
1122There is already a peer with the given
1123.IR address .
1124.SP
3cdc3f3a 1125.BI "peer-exists " peer
1126(For
1127.BR ADD .)
1128There is already a peer named
d6623498 1129.IR peer .
13a55605 1130.SP
0ba8de86 1131.B "ping-send-failed"
1132The attempt to send a ping packet failed, probably due to lack of
1133encryption keys.
13a55605 1134.SP
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1135.B "provider-failed"
1136(For
1137.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1138The service provider disconnected without sending back a final reply to
1139the job.
1140.SP
1141.B "provider-overloaded"
1142(For
1143.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1144The service provider has too many jobs queued up for it already.
1145.SP
3cdc3f3a 1146.BI "resolve-error " hostname
1147(For
1148.BR ADD .)
1149The DNS name
1150.I hostname
1151could not be resolved.
13a55605 1152.SP
3cdc3f3a 1153.BI "resolver-timeout " hostname
1154(For
1155.BR ADD .)
1156The DNS name
1157.I hostname
1158took too long to resolve.
13a55605 1159.SP
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1160.BI "service-exists " service " " version
1161(For
1162.BR SVCCLAIM .)
1163Another client is already providing the stated
1164.I version
1165of the
1166.IR service .
1167.SP
1168.BI "service-too-old " service " " version
1169(For
1170.B SVCENSURE
1171and
1172.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1173Only the given
1174.I version
1175of the requested
1176.I service
1177is available, which does not meet the stated requirements.
1178.SP
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1179.BI "tag-exists " tag
1180(For long-running commands.) The named
1181.I tag
1182is already the tag of an outstanding job.
1183.SP
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1184.BI "unknown-address-family " afam
1185(For
1186.BR PORT .)
1187The address family
1188.I afam
1189is unrecognized.
1190.SP
3cdc3f3a 1191.BI "unknown-command " token
1192The command
9df937a3 1193.I token
78dcf842 1194was not recognized.
13a55605 1195.SP
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1196.BI "unknown-jobid " jobid
1197(For
1198.BR SVCOK ,
1199.BR SVCFAIL ,
1200and
1201.BR SVCINFO .)
1202The token
1203.I jobid
1204is not recognized as identifying an outstanding job. It may have just
1205been cancelled.
1206.SP
3cdc3f3a 1207.BI "unknown-peer " name
1208(For
1209.BR ADDR ,
1210.BR IFNAME ,
1211.BR KILL ,
64cf2223 1212.BR SETIFNAME ,
3cdc3f3a 1213and
1214.BR STATS .)
1215There is no peer called
1216.IR name .
13a55605 1217.SP
fd68efa9 1218.BI "unknown-port " port
3cdc3f3a 1219(For
1220.BR ADD .)
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1221The port name
1222.I port
e04c2d50 1223couldn't be found in
3cdc3f3a 1224.BR /etc/services .
dad7eebc 1225.SP
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1226.BI "unknown-service " service
1227(For
1228.BR SVCENSURE ,
1229.BR SVCQUERY ,
1230.BR SVCRELEASE ,
1231and
1232.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1233The token
1234.I service
1235is not recognized as the name of a client-provided service.
dad7eebc 1236.SP
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1237.BI "unknown-tag " tag
1238(For
1239.BR BGCANCEL .)
1240The given
1241.I tag
1242is not the tag for any outstanding background job. It may have just
1243finished.
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1244.SP
1245.BI "unknown-tunnel " tun
1246(For
1247.BR ADD .)
1248The given
1249.I tun
1250is not the name of any known tunnel driver.
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1252.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
3cdc3f3a 1253.SH "NOTIFICATIONS"
fc916a09 1254.
13a55605 1255.\"* 30 Notification broadcasts (NOTE codes)
3cdc3f3a 1256The following notifications are sent to clients who request them.
13a55605 1257.SP
42da2a58 1258.BI "ADD " peer " " ifname " " address \fR...
3cdc3f3a 1259A new peer has been added. The peer's name is
42da2a58 1260.IR peer ,
1261its tunnel is network interface
1262.IR ifname ,
3cdc3f3a 1263and its network address is
1264.IR address .
13a55605 1265.SP
3cdc3f3a 1266.BI "DAEMON"
1267The server has forked off into the sunset and become a daemon.
13a55605 1268.SP
37941236 1269.BI "GREET " challenge " " address \fR...
1270A valid greeting was received, with the given challenge (exactly as it
1271was returned by
1272.B GETCHAL
1273earlier).
13a55605 1274.SP
d6623498 1275.BI "KILL " peer
3cdc3f3a 1276The peer
1277.I peer
1278has been killed.
13a55605 1279.SP
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1280.BI "KNOCK " peer " " address
1281The currently unknown
1282.I peer
1283is attempting to connect from
1284.IR address .
1285.SP
3cdc3f3a 1286.BI "KXDONE " peer
1287Key exchange with
1288.I peer
1289finished successfully.
13a55605 1290.SP
3cdc3f3a 1291.BI "KXSTART " peer
1292Key exchange with
1293.I peer
1294has begun or restarted. If key exchange keeps failing, this message
1295will be repeated periodically.
13a55605 1296.SP
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1297.BI "NEWADDR " peer " " address
1298The given mobile
1299.IR peer 's
1300IP address has been changed to
1301.IR address .
1302.SP
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1303.BI "NEWIFNAME " peer " " old-name " " new-name
1304The given
1305.IR peer 's
1306tunnel interface name has been changed from
1307.I old-name
1308to
1309.IR new-name ,
1310as a result of a
1311.B SETIFNAME
1312command.
1313.SP
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1314.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
1315The named
1316.I service
1317is now available, at the stated
1318.IR version .
1319.SP
1320.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
1321The named
1322.I service
1323is no longer available.
1324.SP
bd58d532 1325.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1326An administration client issued a notification using the
1327.B NOTIFY
1328command.
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1330.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
3cdc3f3a 1331.SH "WARNINGS"
fc916a09 1332.
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1333.\"* 40 Warning broadcasts (WARN codes)
1334.\"+sep
3cdc3f3a 1335There are many possible warnings. They are categorized according to
1336their first tokens.
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1338Many of these warnings report system errors. These are reported as a
1339pair of tokens, described below as
1340.I ecode
1341and
1342.IR message .
1343The
1344.I ecode
1345is a string of the form
1346.BI E number
1347giving the
1348.BR errno (3)
1349value of the error; the
1350.I message
1351is the `human-readable' form of the message, as reported by
1352.BR strerror (3).
3cdc3f3a 1353.SS "ABORT warnings"
1354These all indicate that the
d6623498 1355.B tripe
3cdc3f3a 1356server has become unable to continue. If enabled, the server will dump
1357core in its configuration directory.
13a55605 1358.SP
3cdc3f3a 1359.BI "ABORT repeated-select-errors"
1360The main event loop is repeatedly failing. If the server doesn't quit,
1361it will probably waste all available CPU doing nothing.
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1362.SP
1363.BI "ABORT hash-size-too-large hash " name " size " sz " limit " max
1364An internal inconsistency: the hash function
1365.I name
1366produces a
1367.IR sz -byte
1368hash, but the server has been compiled to assume that no hash function
1369returns more than
1370.I max
1371bytes.
3cdc3f3a 1372.SS "ADMIN warnings"
1373These indicate a problem with the administration socket interface.
13a55605 1374.SP
f43df819 1375.BI "ADMIN accept-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1376There was an error while attempting to accept a connection from a new
1377client.
13a55605 1378.SP
f43df819 1379.BI "ADMIN client-write-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1380There was an error sending data to a client. The connection to the
1381client has been closed.
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1383.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " already-in-use"
1384The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1385filesystem, because there's already a socket there, and some other
1386process is actively listening for incoming connections.
1387.SP
1388.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " bind-failed " ecode " " message
1389The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1390filesystem for an unusual reason. (The usual reason is
1391.BR EADDRINUSE ,
1392but this is handled specially.)
1393.SP
1394.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " chmod-failed " ecode " " message
1395The server failed to set the correct permissions of the Unix-domain
1396socket object.
1397.SP
1398.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " chown-failed " ecode " " message
1399The server failed to set the correct ownership of the Unix-domain socket
1400object.
1401.SP
1402.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " create-failed " ecode " " message
1403The server failed to create its administration socket. This is usually
1404because some system resource is unavailable.
1405.SP
1406.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " listen-failed " ecode " " message
1407The server failed to arrange to receive incoming connections on its
1408Unix-domain socket.
1409.SP
1410.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " name-too-long"
1411The server can't create its administration socket, because the chosen
1412pathname
1413.I path
1414is too long. There is, for historical reasons, a rather tight limit on
1415the length of name permitted for Unix-domain sockets, usually around 108
1416bytes.
1417.SP
1418.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " stat-failed " ecode " " message
1419The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1420filesystem, because there's already something there, but the server
1421couldn't discover what.
1422.SP
1423.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " too-many-retries"
1424The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1425filesystem. This error indicates that another process is also
1426repeatedly trying to create a Unix-domain socket at the same
1427.IR path ,
1428and then failing to actually listen for connections on it, but the
1429server always loses the applicable race for some reason. This situation
1430merits investigation.
1431.SP
1432.BI "ADMIN adns-init-failed " ecode " " message
1433The server failed to initialize the ADNS asynchronous DNS-resolution
1434library.
37941236 1435.SS "CHAL warnings"
1436These indicate errors in challenges, either in the
1437.B CHECKCHAL
1438command or in greeting packets.
13a55605 1439.SP
37941236 1440.B "CHAL impossible-challenge"
1441The server hasn't issued any challenges yet. Quite how anyone else
1442thought he could make one up is hard to imagine.
13a55605 1443.SP
37941236 1444.B "CHAL incorrect-tag"
1445Challenge received contained the wrong authentication data. It might be
1446very stale, or a forgery.
13a55605 1447.SP
37941236 1448.B "CHAL invalid-challenge"
1449Challenge received was the wrong length. We might have changed MAC
1450algorithms since the challenge was issued, or it might just be rubbish.
13a55605 1451.SP
37941236 1452.B "CHAL replay duplicated-sequence"
1453Challenge received was a definite replay of an old challenge. Someone's
1454up to something!
13a55605 1455.SP
37941236 1456.B "CHAL replay old-sequence"
1457Challenge received was old, but maybe not actually a replay. Try again.
3cdc3f3a 1458.SS "KEYMGMT warnings"
1459These indicate a problem with the keyring files, or the keys stored in
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1460them. The first token is either
1461.B private-keyring
1462or
1463.B public-keyring
1464(notated
1465.IB which -keyring
1466in the descriptions below) indicating which keyring file is problematic,
1467and the second token is the filename of the keyring. Frequently a key
1468tag may be given next, preceded by the token
1469.BR key .
1470.SP
1471.BI "KEYMGMT public-keyring " file " key " tag " algorithm-mismatch"
1472A peer's public key doesn't request the same algorithms as our private
1473key.
1474.SP
1475.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " bad-tag-length " len
1476The key attributes specify the length of MAC tag as
1477.I len
1478but this is an invalid value \(en either too large or not a multiple of
1479eight.
1480.SP
1481.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " bad-tag-length-string " str
1482The key attributes contain
1483.I str
1484where a MAC tag length was expected. The key was generated wrongly.
1485.SP
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1486.BI "KEYMGMT private-keyring " file " key " tag " incorrect-public-key"
1487The private key doesn't record the correct corresponding public key.
1488.SP
1489.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " io-error " ecode " " message
1490A system error occurred while opening or reading the keyring file.
1491.SP
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1492.BI "KEYMGMT private-keyring " file " key " tag " changed-group"
1493The private keyring has been changed, but the new private key can't be
1494used because it uses a different group for Diffie\(enHellman key
1495exchange.
1496.SP
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1497.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " no-hmac-for-hash " hash
1498No message authentication code was given explicitly, and there's no
1499implementation of HMAC for the selected hash function
1500.IR hash .
4d36660a 1501.SP
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1502.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-bulk-transform " bulk
1503The key specifies the use of an unknown bulk-crypto transform
1504.IR bulk .
1505Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1506installed is too old.
1507.SP
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1508.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-cipher " cipher
1509The key specifies the use of an unknown symmetric encryption algorithm
1510.IR cipher .
1511Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of
1512Catacomb installed is too old.
1513.SP
1514.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-group-type " type
1515The key specifies the use of a Diffie\(enHellman group of an unknown
1516.IR type .
1517Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of
1518.BR tripe (8)
1519is too old.
1520.SP
1521.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-hash " hash
1522The key specifies the use of an unknown hash function
1523.IR hash .
1524Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1525installed is too old.
1526.SP
1527.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-mac " mac
1528The key specifies the use of an unknown message authentication code
1529.IR mac .
1530Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1531installed is too old.
1532.SP
1533.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-mgf-cipher " mgf
1534The key specifies the use of an unknown symmetric encryption function
1535.I mgf
1536for mask generation. Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the
1537version of Catacomb installed is too old.
1538.SP
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1539.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-serialization-format " ser
1540The key specifies the use of an unknown serialization format
1541.I ser
1542for hashing group elements. Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or
1543maybe the version of Catacomb installed is too old.
1544.SP
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1545.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "no-aad"
1546The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1547.I cipher
1548which does not support the processing of additional authenticated data.
1549The most prominent examples of such schemes are the
1550.IB cipher -naclbox
1551collection, where
1552.I cipher
1553is
1554.BR salsa20 ,
1555.BR salsa20/12 ,
1556.BR salsa20/8 ,
1557.BR chacha20 ,
1558.BR chacha12 ,
1559or
1560.BR chacha8 ;
1561use the
1562.B naclbox
1563bulk transform rather than
1564.B aead
1565for these
1566(or switch to the IETF
1567.IB cipher -poly1305
1568schemes instead).
1569.SP
1570.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonce-too-small"
1571The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1572.I cipher
1573which doesn't even allow a 5-byte (40-bit) nonce. Catacomb doesn't
1574implement any such limited AE schemes: you must be doing something
1575strange.
1576.SP
1577.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonce-too-large"
1578The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1579.I cipher
1580which doesn't support any nonce size smaller than 64 bytes (512 bits).
1581Catacomb doesn't implement any such extravagant AE schemes: you must be
1582doing something strange.
1583.SP
1584.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonempty-ciphertext-for-empty-message"
1585The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1586.I cipher
1587which produces ciphertext output even when given a completely empty
1588message. Catacomb doesn't implement any such unhelpful AE schemes: you
1589must be doing something strange.
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1590.SP
1591.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " " alg " " name " no-key-size " hashsz
1592The
1593.I alg
1594token is either
1595.B cipher
1596or
1597.BR mac .
1598The named algorithm requires more key material than the hash function
1599can provide. You must change either the hash function, or the cipher or
1600MAC.
13a55605 1601.SP
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1602.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " mgf " mgf " restrictive-key-schedule"
1603The cipher selected for mask-generation is unsuitable because it can't
1604accept arbitrary-sized keys.
13a55605 1605.SP
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1606.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key-not-found " tag
1607A key named
3cdc3f3a 1608.I tag
4d36660a 1609couldn't be found in the keyring.
13a55605 1610.SP
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1611.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " unknown-key-id 0x" keyid
1612A key with the given
1613.I keyid
1614(in hex) was requested but not found.
1615.SP
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1616.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " line " line " " message
1617The contents of the keyring file are invalid. There may well be a bug
1618in the
1619.BR key (1)
1620program.
3cdc3f3a 1621.SS "KX warnings"
1622These indicate problems during key-exchange. Many indicate either a bug
1623in the server (either yours or the remote one), or some kind of attack
1624in progress. All name a
1625.I peer
1626as the second token: this is the peer the packet is apparently from,
1627though it may have been sent by an attacker instead.
1628.PP
1629In the descriptions below,
1630.I msgtoken
1631is one of the tokens
1632.BR pre-challenge ,
1633.BR cookie ,
1634.BR challenge ,
1635.BR reply ,
1636.BR switch-rq ,
3cdc3f3a 1637.BR switch-ok .
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1638.BR token-rq ,
1639.BR token ,
1640or
1641.BR knock .
13a55605 1642.SP
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1643.BI "KX " peer " algorithms-mismatch local-private-key " privtag " peer-public-key " pubtag
1644The algorithms specified in the peer's public key
1645.I pubtag
1646don't match the ones described in the private key
1647.IR privtag .
1648.SP
3cdc3f3a 1649.BI "KX " peer " bad-expected-reply-log"
1650The challenges
1651.B tripe
1652uses in its protocol contain a check value which proves that the
1653challenge is honest. This message indicates that the check value
1654supplied is wrong: someone is attempting to use bogus challenges to
1655persuade your
1656.B tripe
1657server to leak private key information. No chance!
13a55605 1658.SP
bd58d532 1659.BI "KX " peer " decrypt-failed reply\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
3cdc3f3a 1660A symmetrically-encrypted portion of a key-exchange message failed to
1661decrypt.
13a55605 1662.SP
3cdc3f3a 1663.BI "KX " peer " invalid " msgtoken
1664A key-exchange message was malformed. This almost certainly indicates a
1665bug somewhere.
13a55605 1666.SP
bd58d532 1667.BI "KX " peer " incorrect cookie\fR|\fBswitch-rq\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
3cdc3f3a 1668A message didn't contain the right magic data. This may be a replay of
1669some old exchange, or random packets being sent in an attempt to waste
1670CPU.
13a55605 1671.SP
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1672.BI "KX " peer " " which "-key-expired"
1673The local private key or the peer's public key (distinguished by
1674.IR which )
1675has expired. Either you or the peer's maintainer should have arranged
1676for a replacement before now.
13a55605 1677.SP
3cdc3f3a 1678.BI "KX " peer " sending-cookie"
1679We've received too many bogus pre-challenge messages. Someone is trying
1680to flood us with key-exchange messages and make us waste CPU on doing
1681hard asymmetric crypto sums.
13a55605 1682.SP
3cdc3f3a 1683.BI "KX " peer " unexpected " msgtoken
1684The message received wasn't appropriate for this stage of the key
1685exchange process. This may mean that one of our previous packets got
e04c2d50 1686lost. For
3cdc3f3a 1687.BR pre-challenge ,
1688it may simply mean that the peer has recently restarted.
13a55605 1689.SP
3cdc3f3a 1690.BI "KX " peer " unknown-challenge"
1691The peer is asking for an answer to a challenge which we don't know
1692about. This may mean that we've been inundated with challenges from
1693some malicious source
1694.I who can read our messages
1695and discarded the valid one.
13a55605 1696.SP
3cdc3f3a 1697.BI "KX " peer " unknown-message 0x" nn
1698An unknown key-exchange message arrived.
1699.SS "PEER warnings"
1700These are largely concerned with management of peers and the low-level
83487ded 1701details of the network protocol. The second token is usually the name of
e04c2d50 1702a peer, or
3cdc3f3a 1703.RB ` \- '
1704if none is relevant.
13a55605 1705.SP
3cdc3f3a 1706.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet no-type"
1707An empty packet arrived. This is very strange.
13a55605 1708.SP
3cdc3f3a 1709.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-category 0x" nn
1710The message category
1711.I nn
1712(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1713somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
13a55605 1714.SP
3cdc3f3a 1715.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-type 0x" nn
1716The message type
1717.I nn
1718(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1719somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
13a55605 1720.SP
0ba8de86 1721.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-encrypted-ping"
1722The peer sent a ping response which matches an outstanding ping, but its
1723payload is wrong. There's definitely a bug somewhere.
13a55605 1724.SP
0ba8de86 1725.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-transport-ping"
1726The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which matches an outstanding
1727ping, but its payload is wrong. Either there's a bug, or the bad guys
1728are playing tricks on you.
13a55605 1729.SP
3cdc3f3a 1730.BI "PEER " peer " decrypt-failed"
1731An encrypted IP packet failed to decrypt. It may have been mangled in
1732transit, or may be a very old packet from an expired previous session
1733key. There is usually a considerable overlap in the validity periods of
1734successive session keys, so this shouldn't occur unless the key exchange
1735takes ages or fails.
13a55605 1736.SP
0ba8de86 1737.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-encrypted-ping"
1738The peer sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid. There's
1739definitely a bug somewhere.
13a55605 1740.SP
0ba8de86 1741.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-transport-ping"
1742The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid.
1743Either there's a bug, or the bad guys are playing tricks on you.
13a55605 1744.SP
3cdc3f3a 1745.BI "PEER " peer " packet-build-failed"
1746There wasn't enough space in our buffer to put the packet we wanted to
1747send. Shouldn't happen.
13a55605 1748.SP
f43df819 1749.BI "PEER \- socket-read-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1750An error occurred trying to read an incoming packet.
13a55605 1751.SP
f43df819 1752.BI "PEER " peer " socket-write-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1753An error occurred attempting to send a network packet. We lost that
1754one.
13a55605 1755.SP
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1756.BI "PEER " address\fR... " disabled-address-family"
1757An attempt was made to send a packet to an address for which support was
1758switched off by command-line options.
1759.SP
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1760.BI "PEER " address\fR... " socket-write-error " ecode " " message
1761An error occurred attempting to send a network packet. We lost that
1762one.
1763.SP
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1764.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " bind-failed " ecode " " message
1765The server failed to associate a UDP socket with a local address.
1766.SP
1767.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " create-failed " ecode " " message
1768The server failed to create a UDP socket for the
1769.IR address-family .
1770.SP
1771.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " read-local-address-failed " ecode " " message
1772The server failed to discover the local address for one of its own UDP
1773sockets.
1774.SP
1775.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " set-buffers-failed " ecode " " message
1776The server failed to configure appropriate buffer sizes on a UDP socket.
1777.SP
1778.BI "PEER \- udp-socket INET6 set-v6only-failed " ecode " " message
1779The server failed to configure an IPv6 socket not to try to collect IPv4
1780traffic too.
1781.SP
0ba8de86 1782.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-encrypted-ping 0x" id
1783The peer sent an encrypted ping response whose id doesn't match any
1784outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the server was
1785willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad.
13a55605 1786.SP
0ba8de86 1787.BI "PEER \- unexpected-source " address\fR...
1788A packet arrived from
1789.I address
1790(a network address \(en see above), but no peer is known at that
1791address. This may indicate a misconfiguration, or simply be a result of
1792one end of a connection being set up before the other.
13a55605 1793.SP
0ba8de86 1794.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-transport-ping 0x" id
1795The peer (apparently) sent a transport ping response whose id doesn't
1796match any outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the
1797server was willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad; or maybe
1798there are bad people trying to confuse you.
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1799.SS "PRIVSEP warnings"
1800These indicate problems with the privilege-separation helper process.
1801(The server tries to drop its privileges when it starts up, leaving a
1802privileged helper process behind which will create and hand over tunnel
1803descriptors on request, but hopefully not do anything else especially
1804dangerous. Tunnel descriptors are not completely safe, but this is
1805probably better than nothing.)
1806.SP
1807.BI "PRIVSEP child-exited " rc
1808The helper process exited normally with status
1809.IR rc .
1810Status 0 means that it thought the server didn't want it any more; 1
1811means that it was invoked incorrectly; 127 means that some system call
1812failed.
1813.SP
1814.BI "PRIVSEP child-killed " sig
1815The helper process was killed by signal number
1816.IR sig .
1817.SP
1818.BI "PRIVSEP child-died " status
1819The helper process died in some unexpected way;
1820.I status is the raw status code returned by
1821.BR waitpid (2),
1822because the server didn't understand how to decode it.
1823.SP
1824.BI "PRIVSEP helper-died"
1825A tunnel driver requires a tunnel descriptor from the helper, but the
1826helper isn't running so this won't work.
1827.SP
1828.BI "PRIVSEP helper-read-error " ecode " " message
1829The server failed to read a response from the helper process.
1830.SP
1831.BI "PRIVSEP helper-short-read"
1832The helper process didn't send back enough data, and has likely crashed.
1833.SP
1834.BI "PRIVSEP helper-write-error " ecode " " message
1835The server failed to send a message to the helper process.
1836.SP
1837.BI "PRIVSEP no-fd-from-helper"
1838The helper process sent back a positive response, but didn't include the
1839requested tunnel descriptor.
1840.SP
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1841.BI "PRIVSEP socketpair-create-failed " ecode " " message
1842The server couldn't create the socketpair it's supposed to use to
1843communicate with the helper process.
1844.SP
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1845.BI "PRIVSEP unknown-response-code"
1846The helper process sent back an incomprehensible reply. It's probably
1847very confused and may crash.
3cdc3f3a 1848.SS "SERVER warnings"
1849These indicate problems concerning the server process as a whole.
13a55605 1850.SP
3cdc3f3a 1851.BI "SERVER ignore signal " name
1852A signal arrived, but the server ignored it. Currently this happens for
1853.B SIGHUP
1854because that's a popular way of telling daemons to re-read their
1855configuration files. Since
1856.B tripe
1857re-reads its keyrings automatically and has no other configuration
1858files, it's not relevant, but it seemed better to ignore the signal than
1859let the server die.
13a55605 1860.SP
3cdc3f3a 1861.BI "SERVER quit signal " \fR[\fInn\fR|\fIname\fR]
1862A signal arrived and
1863.B tripe
1864is going to quit.
13a55605 1865.SP
3cdc3f3a 1866.BI "SERVER quit admin-request"
1867A client of the administration interface issued a
1868.B QUIT
1869command.
13a55605 1870.SP
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1871.BI "SERVER daemon-error " ecode " " message
1872The server failed to become a daemon during initialization.
1873.SP
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1874.BI "SERVER quit foreground-eof"
1875The server is running in foreground mode (the
1876.B \-F
1877option), and encountered end-of-file on standard input.
1878.SP
f43df819 1879.BI "SERVER select-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1880An error occurred in the server's main event loop. This is bad: if it
1881happens too many times, the server will abort.
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1882.SP
1883.BI "SERVER waitpid-error " ecode " " message
1884The server was informed that one of its child processes had exited, but
1885couldn't retrieve the child's status.
3cdc3f3a 1886.SS "SYMM warnings"
1887These are concerned with the symmetric encryption and decryption
1888process.
13a55605 1889.SP
3cdc3f3a 1890.BI "SYMM replay old-sequence"
1891A packet was received with an old sequence number. It may just have
1892been delayed or duplicated, or it may have been an attempt at a replay
1893attack.
13a55605 1894.SP
3cdc3f3a 1895.BI "SYMM replay duplicated-sequence"
1896A packet was received with a sequence number we've definitely seen
1897before. It may be an accidental duplication because the 'net is like
1898that, or a deliberate attempt at a replay.
1899.SS "TUN warnings"
1900These concern the workings of the system-specific tunnel driver. The
83487ded 1901second token is the name of the tunnel interface in question, or
3cdc3f3a 1902.RB ` \- '
1903if none.
13a55605 1904.SP
3cdc3f3a 1905.BI "TUN \- bsd no-tunnel-devices"
1906The driver couldn't find an available tunnel device. Maybe if you
e04c2d50 1907create some more
3cdc3f3a 1908.BI /dev/tun nn
1909files, it will work.
13a55605 1910.SP
72917fe7 1911.BI "TUN \- " tun-name " open-error " device " " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1912An attempt to open the tunnel device file
1913.I device
1914failed.
13a55605 1915.SP
f43df819 1916.BI "TUN \- linux config-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1917Configuring the Linux TUN/TAP interface failed.
13a55605 1918.SP
f43df819 1919.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " read-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1920Reading from the tunnel device failed.
13a55605 1921.SP
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1922.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " write-error " ecode " " message
1923Writing from the tunnel device failed.
1924.SP
42da2a58 1925.BI "TUN " ifname " slip bad-escape"
1926The SLIP driver encountered a escaped byte it wasn't expecting to see.
1927The erroneous packet will be ignored.
13a55605 1928.SP
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1929.BI "TUN \- slip bad-interface-list"
1930The interface list, in the
1931.B TRIPE_SLIPIF
1932environment variable, is malformed.
1933.SP
b9066fbb 1934.BI "TUN " ifname " slip eof"
1935The SLIP driver encountered end-of-file on its input descriptor.
1936Pending data is discarded, and no attempt is made to read any more data
1937from that interface ever.
13a55605 1938.SP
b9066fbb 1939.BI "TUN " ifname " slip escape-end"
1940The SLIP driver encountered an escaped `end' marker. This probably
1941means that someone's been sending it junk. The erroneous packet is
1942discarded, and we hope that we've rediscovered synchronization.
13a55605 1943.SP
f43df819 1944.BI "TUN \- slip fork-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1945The SLIP driver encountered an error forking a child process while
1946allocating a new dynamic interface.
13a55605 1947.SP
42da2a58 1948.BI "TUN \- slip no-slip-interfaces"
1949The driver ran out of static SLIP interfaces. Either preallocate more,
1950or use dynamic SLIP interface allocation.
13a55605 1951.SP
b9066fbb 1952.BI "TUN " ifname " slip overflow"
1953The SLIP driver gave up reading a packet because it got too large.
13a55605 1954.SP
f43df819 1955.BI "TUN \- slip pipe-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1956The SLIP driver encountered an error creating pipes while allocating a
1957new dynamic interface.
13a55605 1958.SP
f43df819 1959.BI "TUN \- slip read-ifname-failed " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1960The SLIP driver encountered an error reading the name of a dynamically
1961allocated interface. Maybe the allocation script is broken.
13a55605 1962.SP
f43df819 1963.BI "TUN \- unet config-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1964Configuring the Linux Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete and
1965shouldn't be used any more.
13a55605 1966.SP
f43df819 1967.BI "TUN \- unet getinfo-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1968Reading information about the Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete
1969and shouldn't be used any more.
bd58d532 1970.SS "USER warnings"
1971These are issued by administration clients using the
1972.B WARN
1973command.
13a55605 1974.SP
bd58d532 1975.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1976An administration client issued a warning.
13a55605 1977.\"-sep
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1979.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
13a55605 1980.SH "SUMMARY"
fc916a09 1981.
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1982.SS "Command responses"
1983.nf
2acd7cd6 1984.BI "BGDETACH " tag
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1985.BI "BGFAIL " tag " " tokens \fR...
1986.BI "BGINFO " tag " " tokens \fR...
1987.BI "BGOK " tag
1988.BI "FAIL " tokens \fR...
1989.BI "INFO " tokens \fR...
1990.B OK
1991.fi
1992.\"= summary
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1994.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
d6623498 1995.SH "SEE ALSO"
fc916a09 1996.
d6623498 1997.BR tripectl (1),
1998.BR tripe (8).
1999.PP
3cdc3f3a 2000.IR "The Trivial IP Encryption Protocol" .
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d6623498 2003.SH "AUTHOR"
fc916a09 2004.
d36eda2a 2005Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
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2006.
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