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1.\" -*-nroff-*-
2.\".
3.\" Manual for the administration protocol
4.\"
5.\" (c) 2008 Straylight/Edgeware
6.\"
7.
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26.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
27.so ../common/defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@
28.
29.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
30.TH tripe-admin 5 "18 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption"
31.
32.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
33.SH "NAME"
34.
35tripe-admin \- administrator commands for TrIPE
36.
37.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
38.SH "DESCRIPTION"
39.
40This manual page describes the administration interface provided by the
41.BR tripe (8)
42daemon.
43.PP
44The
45.BR tripectl (8)
46program can be used either interactively or in scripts to communicate
47with the server using this interface. Alternatively, simple custom
48clients can be written in scripting languages such as Perl, Python or
49Tcl, or more advanced clients such as GUI monitors can be written in C
50with little difficulty.
51.PP
52Administration commands use a textual protocol. Each client command or
53server response consists of a line of ASCII text terminated by a single
54linefeed character. No command may be longer than 255 characters.
55.SS "General structure"
56Each command or response line consists of a sequence of
57whitespace-separated tokens. The number and nature of whitespace
58characters separating two tokens in a client command is not significant;
59the server always uses a single space character. The first token in a
60line is a
61.I keyword
62identifying the type of command or response contained. Keywords in
63client commands are not case-sensitive; the server always uses uppercase
64for its keywords.
65.PP
66In order to allow tokens to contain internal whitespace, a quoting
67mechanism is provided. Whitespace within matched pairs of quotes \(en
68either single
69.RB ` ' '
70or double
71.RB ` """" '
72\(en is considered to be internal. Any character (other than newline)
73may be escaped by preceding it with a backslash
74.RB ` \e ':
75in particular, this can be used to include quote characters. It is
76impossible for a token to contain a newline character.
77.PP
78On output, the server will use double quotes when necessary.
79.SS "Simple commands"
80For simple client command, the server responds with zero or more
81.B INFO
82lines, followed by either an
83.B OK
84line or a
85.B FAIL
86line. Each
87.B INFO
88provides information requested in the command. An
89.B OK
90response contains no further data. A
91.B FAIL
92code is followed by a machine-readable explanation of why the command
93failed.
94.PP
95Simple command processing is strictly synchronous: the server reads a
96command, processes it, and responds, before reading the next command.
97All commands can be run as simple commands. Long-running commands
98(e.g.,
99.B ADD
100and
101.BR PING )
102block the client until they finish, but the rest of the server continues
103running. See
104.B "Background commands"
105to find out how to issue long-running commands without blocking.
106.SS "Asynchronous broadcasts"
107There are three types of asynchronous broadcast messages which aren't
108associated with any particular command. Clients can select which
109broadcast messages they're interested in using the
110.B WATCH
111command.
112.PP
113The
114.B WARN
115message contains a machine-readable message warning of an error
116encountered while processing a command, unexpected or unusual behaviour
117by a peer, or a possible attack by an adversary. Under normal
118conditions, the server shouldn't emit any warnings.
119.PP
120The
121.B TRACE
122message contains a human-readable tracing message containing diagnostic
123information. Trace messages are controlled using the
124.B \-T
125command-line option to the server, or the
126.B TRACE
127administration command (see below). Support for tracing can be disabled
128when the package is being configured, and may not be available in your
129version.
130.PP
131Finally, the
132.B NOTE
133message is a machine-readable notification about some routine but
134interesting event such as creation or destruction of peers.
135.SS "Background commands"
136Some commands (e.g.,
137.B ADD
138and
139.BR PING )
140take a long time to complete. To prevent these long-running commands
141from tying up a server connection, they can be run in the background.
142Not all commands can be run like this: the ones that can provide a
143.B \-background
144option, which must be supplied with a
145.IR tag .
146.PP
147A command may fail before it starts running in the background. In this
148case, the server emits a
149.B FAIL
150response, as usual. To indicate that a command has started running in
151the background, the server emits a response of the form
152.BI "BGDETACH " tag \fR,
153where
154.I tag
155is the value passed to the
156.B \-background
157option. From this point on, the server is ready to process more
158commands and reply to them.
159.PP
160Responses to background commands are indicated by a line beginning with
161one of the tokens
162.BR BGOK ,
163.BR BGFAIL ,
164or
165.BR BGINFO ,
166followed by the command tag. These correspond to the
167.BR OK ,
168.BR FAIL ,
169and
170.B INFO
171responses for simple commands:
172.B BGINFO
173indicates information from a background command which has not completed
174yet; and
175.B BGOK
176and
177.B BGFAIL
178indicates that a background command succeeded or failed, respectively.
179.PP
180A background command will never issue an
181.B OK
182or
183.B INFO
184response: it will always detach and then issue any
185.B BGINFO
186lines followed by
187.B BGOK
188response.
189.SS "Client-provided services"
190.\"* 25 Service-related messages
191An administration client can provide services to other clients.
192Services are given names and versions. A client can attempt to
193.I claim
194a particular service by issuing the
195.B SVCCLAIM
196command. This may fail, for example, if some other client already
197provides the same or later version of the service.
198.PP
199Other clients can issue
200.I "service commands"
201using the
202.B "SVCSUBMIT"
203command; the service provider is expected to handle these commands and
204reply to them.
205.PP
206There are three important asynchronous messages which will be sent to
207service providers.
208.SP
209.BI "SVCCANCEL " jobid
210The named job has been cancelled, either because the issuing client has
211disconnected or explicitly cancelled the job using the
212.B BGCANCEL
213command.
214.SP
215.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
216Another client has claimed a later version of the named
217.IR service .
218The recipient is no longer the provider of this service.
219.SP
220.BI "SVCJOB " jobid " " service " " command " " args \fR...
221Announces the arrival of a new job. The
222.I jobid
223is a simple token consisting of alphanumeric characters which
224.B tripe
225uses to identify this job.
226.PP
227The service provider can reply to the job using the commands
228.BR SVCINFO ,
229.B SVCOK
230and
231.BR SVCFAIL .
232The first of these sends an
233.B INFO
234response and leaves the job active; the other two send an
235.B OK
236or
237.B FAIL
238response respectively, and mark the job as being complete.
239.PP
240(Since
241.B SVCSUBMIT
242is a potentially long-running command, it can be run in the background.
243This detail is hidden from service providers:
244.B tripe
245will issue the corresponding
246.BR BG ...
247responses when appropriate.)
248.SS "Network addresses"
249A network address is a sequence of tokens. The first is a token
250identifying the network address family. The length of an address and
251the meanings of the subsequent tokens depend on the address family.
252Address family tokens are not case-sensitive on input; on output, they
253are always in upper-case.
254.PP
255At present, only one address family is understood.
256.TP
257.BI "INET " address " \fR[" port \fR]
258An Internet socket, naming an IPv4 address and UDP port. On output, the
259address is always in numeric dotted-quad form, and the port is given as
260a plain number. On input, DNS hostnames and symbolic port names are
261permitted; if omitted, the default port 4070 is used. Name resolution
262does not block the main server, but will block the requesting client,
263unless the command is run in the background.
264.PP
265If, on input, no recognized address family token is found, the following
266tokens are assumed to represent an
267.B INET
268address. Addresses output by the server always have an address family
269token.
270.SS "Key-value output"
271Some commands (e.g.,
272.B STATS
273and
274.BR SERVINFO )
275produce output in the form of
276.IB key = value
277pairs, one per token. Neither the
278.I key
279nor the
280.I value
281contain spaces.
282.SS "Trace lists"
283Commands which enable or disable kinds of output (e.g.,
284.B TRACE
285and
286.BR WATCH )
287work in similar ways. They take a single optional argument, which
288consists of a string of letters selecting message types, optionally
289interspersed with
290.RB ` + '
291to enable, or
292.RB ` \- '
293to disable, the subsequently listed types.
294.PP
295If the argument is omitted, the available message types are displayed,
296one to an
297.B INFO
298line, in a fixed-column format. Column zero contains the key letter for
299selecting that message type; column one contains either a space or a
300.RB ` + '
301sign, if the message type is disabled or enabled respectively; and a
302textual description of the message type begins at column 3 and continues
303to the end of the line.
304.PP
305Lowercase key letters control individual message types. Uppercase key
306letters control collections of message types.
307.
308.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
309.SH "COMMAND REFERENCE"
310.
311.\"* 10 Commands
312The commands provided are:
313.SP
314.BI "ADD \fR[" options "\fR] " peer " " address "\fR..."
315Adds a new peer. The peer is given the name
316.IR peer ;
317the peer's public key is assumed to be in the file
318.B keyring.pub
319(or whatever alternative file was specified in the
320.B \-K
321option on the command line). The
322.I address
323is the network address (see above for the format) at which the peer can
324be contacted. The following options are recognized.
325.RS
326.\"+opts
327.TP
328.BI "\-background " tag
329Run the command in the background, using the given
330.IR tag .
331.TP
332.B "\-cork"
333Don't send an immediate challenge to the peer; instead, wait until it
334sends us something before responding.
335.TP
336.BI "\-keepalive " time
337Send a no-op packet if we've not sent a packet to the peer in the last
338.I time
339interval. This is useful for persuading port-translating firewalls to
340believe that the `connection' is still active. The
341.I time
342is expressed as a nonnegative integer followed optionally by
343.BR d ,
344.BR h ,
345.BR m ,
346or
347.BR s
348for days, hours, minutes, or seconds respectively; if no suffix is
349given, seconds are assumed.
350.TP
351.BI "\-key " tag
352Use the public key
353.I tag
354to authenticate the peer. The default is to use the key tagged
355.IR peer .
356.TP
357.B "\-mobile"
358The peer is a mobile device, and is likely to change address rapidly.
359If a packet arrives from an unknown address, the server's usual response
360is to log a warning and discard it. If the server knows of any mobile
361peers, however, it will attempt to decrypt the packet using their keys,
362and if one succeeds, the server will update its idea of the peer's
363address and emit an
364.B NEWADDR
365notification.
366.TP
367.BI "\-tunnel " tunnel
368Use the named tunnel driver, rather than the default.
369.\"-opts
370.RE
371.SP
372.BI "ADDR " peer
373Emits an
374.B INFO
375line reporting the IP address and port number stored for
376.IR peer .
377.SP
378.B "ALGS"
379Emits information about the cryptographic algorithms in use, in
380key-value form. The keys are as follows.
381.RS
382.TP
383.B kx-group
384Type of key-exchange group in use, currently either
385.B ec
386or
387.BR prime .
388.TP
389.B kx-group-order-bits
390Length of the group order, in bits. This gives an approximate measure
391of the group strength.
392.TP
393.B kx-group-elt-bits
394Length of a group element, in bits. This may be useful when analyzing
395protocol traces.
396.TP
397.B hash
398The hash function in use, e.g.,
399.BR sha256 .
400.TP
401.B mgf
402The mask-generating function in use, e.g.,
403.BR whirlpool-mgf .
404.TP
405.B hashsz
406The size of the hash function's output, in octets.
407.TP
408.B cipher
409The name of the bulk data cipher in use, e.g.,
410.BR blowfish-cbc .
411.TP
412.B cipher-keysz
413The length of key used by the bulk data cipher, in octets.
414.TP
415.B cipher-blksz
416The block size of the bulk data cipher, or zero if it's not based on a
417block cipher.
418.TP
419.B cipher-data-limit
420The maximum amount of data to be encrypted using a single key. (A new
421key exchange is instigated well before the limit is reached, in order to
422allow for a seamless changeover of keys.)
423.TP
424.B mac
425The message authentication algorithm in use, e.g.,
426.BR ripemd160-hmac ..
427.TP
428.B mac-keysz
429The length of the key used by the message authentication algorithm, in
430octets.
431.TP
432.B mac-tagsz
433The length of the message authentication tag, in octets.
434.PP
435The various sizes are useful, for example, when computing the MTU for a
436tunnel interface. If
437.I MTU
438is the MTU of the path to the peer, then the tunnel MTU should be
439.IP
440.I MTU
441\- 33 \-
442.I cipher-blksz
443\-
444.I mac-tagsz
445.PP
446allowing 20 bytes of IP header, 8 bytes of UDP header, a packet type
447octet, a four-octet sequence number, an IV, and a MAC tag.
448.RE
449.SP
450.BI "BGCANCEL " tag
451Cancels the background job with the named
452.IR tag .
453.SP
454.BI "CHECKCHAL " challenge
455Verifies a challenge as being one earlier issued by
456.B GETCHAL
457and not previously either passed to
458.B CHECKCHAL
459or in a greeting message.
460.SP
461.B "DAEMON"
462Causes the server to disassociate itself from its terminal and become a
463background task. This only works once. A warning is issued.
464.SP
465.BI "EPING \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
466Sends an encrypted ping to the peer, and expects an encrypted response.
467This checks that the peer is running (and not being impersonated), and
468that it can encrypt and decrypt packets correctly. Options and
469responses are the same as for the
470.B PING
471command.
472.SP
473.BI "FORCEKX " peer
474Requests the server to begin a new key exchange with
475.I peer
476immediately.
477.SP
478.B "GETCHAL"
479Requests a challenge. The challenge is returned in an
480.B INFO
481line, as a base64-encoded string. See
482.BR CHECKCHAL .
483.SP
484.BI "GREET " peer " " challenge
485Sends a greeting packet containing the
486.I challenge
487(base-64 encoded) to the named
488.IR peer .
489The expectation is that this will cause the peer to recognize us and
490begin a key-exchange.
491.SP
492.B "HELP"
493Causes the server to emit an
494.B INFO
495line for each command it supports. Each line lists the command name,
496followed by the names of the arguments. This may be helpful as a memory
497aid for interactive use, or for program clients probing for features.
498.SP
499.BI "IFNAME " peer
500Emits an
501.B INFO
502line containing the name of the network interface used to collect IP
503packets which are to be encrypted and sent to
504.IR peer .
505Used by configuration scripts so that they can set up routing tables
506appropriately after adding new peers.
507.SP
508.B "JOBS"
509Emits an
510.B INFO
511line giving the tag for each outstanding background job.
512.SP
513.BI "KILL " peer
514Causes the server to forget all about
515.IR peer .
516All keys are destroyed, and no more packets are sent. No notification
517is sent to the peer: if it's important that the peer be notified, you
518must think of a way to do that yourself.
519.SP
520.B "LIST"
521For each currently-known peer, an
522.B INFO
523line is written containing the peer's name, as given to
524.BR ADD .
525.SP
526.BI "NOTIFY " tokens\fR...
527Issues a
528.B USER
529notification to all interested administration clients.
530.SP
531.BI "PEERINFO " peer
532Returns information about a peer, in key-value form. The following keys
533are returned.
534.RS
535.TP
536.B tunnel
537The tunnel driver used for this peer.
538.TP
539.B keepalive
540The keepalive interval, in seconds, or zero if no keepalives are to be
541sent.
542.TP
543.B key
544The key tag being used for the peer, as passed to the
545.B ADD
546command. (You don't get a full key-id, since that might change while
547the daemon's running.)
548.RE
549.SP
550.BI "PING \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
551Send a transport-level ping to the peer. The ping and its response are
552not encrypted or authenticated. This command, possibly in conjunction
553with tracing, is useful for ensuring that UDP packets are actually
554flowing in both directions. See also the
555.B EPING
556command.
557.IP
558An
559.B INFO
560line is printed describing the outcome:
561.RS
562.TP
563.BI "ping-ok " millis
564A response was received
565.I millis
566after the ping was sent.
567.TP
568.BI "ping-timeout"
569No response was received within the time allowed.
570.TP
571.BI "ping-peer-died"
572The peer was killed (probably by another admin connection) before a
573response was received.
574.RE
575.IP
576Options recognized for this command are:
577.RS
578.\"+opts
579.TP
580.BI "\-background " tag
581Run the command in the background, using the given
582.IR tag .
583.TP
584.BI "\-timeout " time
585Wait for
586.I time
587seconds before giving up on a response. The default is 5 seconds. The
588.I time
589is expressed as a nonnegative integer followed optionally by
590.BR d ,
591.BR h ,
592.BR m ,
593or
594.BR s
595for days, hours, minutes, or seconds respectively; if no suffix is
596given, seconds are assumed.
597.\"-opts
598.RE
599.SP
600.B "PORT"
601Emits an
602.B INFO
603line containing just the number of the UDP port used by the
604.B tripe
605server. If you've allowed your server to allocate a port dynamically,
606this is how to find out which one it chose.
607.SP
608.B "RELOAD"
609Instructs the server to recheck its keyring files. The server checks
610these periodically anyway but it may be necessary to force a recheck,
611for example after adding a new peer key.
612.SP
613.B "QUIT"
614Instructs the server to exit immediately. A warning is sent.
615.SP
616.B "SERVINFO"
617Returns information about the server, in the form of key-value pairs.
618The following keys are used.
619.RS
620.TP
621.B implementation
622A keyword naming the implementation of the
623.BR tripe (8)
624server. The current implementation is called
625.BR edgeware-tripe .
626.TP
627.B version
628The server's version number, as reported by
629.BR VERSION .
630.TP
631.B daemon
632Either
633.B t
634or
635.BR nil ,
636if the server has or hasn't (respectively) become a daemon.
637.RE
638.SP
639.BI "SETIFNAME " peer " " new-name
640Informs the server that the
641.IR peer 's
642tunnel-interface name has been changed to
643.IR new-name .
644This is useful if firewalling decisions are made based on interface
645names: a setup script for a particular peer can change the name, and
646then update the server's records so that they're accurate.
647.SP
648.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
649Attempts to claim the named
650.IR service ,
651offering the given
652.IR version .
653The claim is successful if the service is currently unclaimed, or if
654a version earlier than
655.I version
656is provided; otherwise the command fails with the error
657.BR "service-exists" .
658.SP
659.BI "SVCENSURE " service " \fR[" version \fR]
660Ensure that
661.I service
662is provided, and (if specified) to at least the given
663.IR version .
664An error is reported if these conditions are not met; otherwise the
665command succeeds silently.
666.SP
667.BI "SVCFAIL " jobid " " tokens \fR...
668Send a
669.B FAIL
670(or
671.BR BGFAIL )
672response to the service job with the given
673.IR jobid ,
674passing the
675.I tokens
676as the reason for failure. The job is closed.
677.SP
678.BI "SVCINFO " jobid " " tokens \fR...
679Send an
680.B INFO
681(or
682.BR BGINFO )
683response to the service job with the given
684.IR jobid ,
685passing the
686.I tokens
687as the info message. The job remains open.
688.SP
689.B "SVCLIST"
690Output a line of the form
691.RS
692.IP
693.B INFO
694.I service
695.I version
696.PP
697for each service currently provided.
698.RE
699.SP
700.BI "SVCOK " jobid
701Send an
702.B OK
703(or
704.BR BGINFO )
705response to the service job with the given
706.IR jobid .
707The job is closed.
708.SP
709.BI "SVCQUERY " service
710Emits a number of
711.B info
712lines in key-value format, describing the named
713.IR service.
714The following keys are used.
715.RS
716.TP
717.B name
718The service's name.
719.TP
720.B version
721The service's version string.
722.RE
723.SP
724.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
725Announce that the client no longer wishes to provide the named
726.IR service .
727.SP
728.BI "SVCSUBMIT \fR[" options "\fR] " service " " command " " arguments \fR...
729Submit a job to the provider of the given
730.IR service ,
731passing it the named
732.I command
733and the given
734.IR arguments .
735The following options are accepted.
736.RS
737.\"+opts
738.TP
739.BI "\-background " tag
740Run the command in the background, using the given
741.IR tag .
742.TP
743.BI "\-version " version
744Ensure that at least the given
745.I version
746of the service is available before submitting the job.
747.RE
748.\"-opts
749.SP
750.BI "STATS " peer
751Emits a number of
752.B INFO
753lines, each containing one or more statistics in the form
754.IB name = value \fR.
755The statistics-gathering is experimental and subject to change.
756.SP
757.BR "TRACE " [\fIoptions\fP]
758Selects trace outputs: see
759.B "Trace lists"
760above. Message types provided are:
761.RS
762.PP
763Currently, the following tracing options are supported:
764.TP
765.B t
766Tunnel events: reception of packets to be encrypted, and injection of
767successfully-decrypted packets.
768.TP
769.B r
770Peer management events: creation and destruction of peer attachments,
771and arrival of messages.
772.TP
773.B a
774Administration interface: acceptance of new connections, and handling of
775the backgroud name-resolution required by the
776.B ADD
777command.
778.TP
779.B s
780Handling of symmetric keysets: creation and expiry of keysets, and
781encryption and decryption of messages.
782.TP
783.B x
784Key exchange: reception, parsing and emission of key exchange messages.
785.TP
786.B m
787Key management: loading keys and checking for file modifications.
788.TP
789.B l
790Display information about challenge issuing and verification.
791.TP
792.B p
793Display contents of packets sent and received by the tunnel and/or peer
794modules.
795.TP
796.B c
797Display inputs, outputs and intermediate results of cryptographic
798operations. This includes plaintext and key material. Use with
799caution.
800.TP
801.B A
802All of the above.
803.PP
804Note that the
805.B p
806(packet contents)
807and
808.B c
809(crypto details)
810outputs provide extra detail for other outputs. Specifying
811.B p
812without
813.BR r
814or
815.B t
816isn't useful; neither is specifying
817.B c
818without one of
819.BR s ,
820.BR l ,
821.B x
822or
823.BR m .
824.RE
825.SP
826.B "TUNNELS"
827For each available tunnel driver, an
828.B INFO
829line is printed giving its name.
830.SP
831.B "VERSION"
832Causes the server to emit an
833.B INFO
834line stating its software version, as two tokens: the server name, and
835its version string. The server name
836.B tripe
837is reserved to the Straylight/Edgeware implementation.
838.SP
839.BR "WATCH " [\fIoptions\fP]
840Enables or disables asynchronous broadcasts
841.IR "for the current connection only" .
842See
843.B "Trace lists"
844above. The default watch state for the connection the server opens
845automatically on stdin/stdout is to show warnings and trace messages;
846other connections show no asynchronous broadcast messages. (This is
847done in order to guarantee that a program reading the server's stdout
848does not miss any warnings.)
849.RS
850.PP
851Message types provided are:
852.TP
853.B t
854.B TRACE
855messages.
856.TP
857.B n
858.B NOTE
859messages.
860.TP
861.B w
862.B WARN
863messages.
864.TP
865.B A
866All of the above.
867.RE
868.SP
869.BI "WARN " tokens\fR...
870Issues a
871.B USER
872warning to all interested administration clients.
873.
874.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
875.SH "ERROR MESSAGES"
876.
877.\"* 20 Error messages (FAIL codes)
878The following
879.B FAIL
880(or
881.BR BGFAIL )
882messages are sent to clients as a result of errors during command
883processing.
884.SP
885.BI "already-daemon"
886(For
887.BR DAEMON .)
888The
889.B tripe
890server is already running as a daemon.
891.SP
892.BI "bad-addr-syntax " message
893(For commands accepting socket addresses.) The address couldn't be
894understood.
895.SP
896.BI "bad-syntax " cmd " " message
897(For any command.) The command couldn't be understood: e.g., the number
898of arguments was wrong.
899.SP
900.BI "bad-time-spec " token
901The
902.I token
903is not a valid time interval specification. Acceptable time
904specifications are nonnegative integers followed optionally by
905.BR d ,
906.BR h ,
907.BR m ,
908or
909.BR s ,
910for days, hours, minutes, or seconds, respectively.
911.SP
912.BI "bad-trace-option " char
913(For
914.BR TRACE .)
915An unknown trace option was requested.
916.SP
917.BI "bad-watch-option " char
918(For
919.BR WATCH .)
920An unknown watch option was requested.
921.SP
922.BI "daemon-error " ecode " " message
923(For
924.BR DAEMON .)
925An error occurred during the attempt to become a daemon, as reported by
926.IR message .
927.SP
928.BI "invalid-port " number
929(For
930.BR ADD .)
931The given port number is out of range.
932.SP
933.BI "not-service-provider " service
934(For
935.BR SVCRELEASE .)
936The invoking client is not the current provider of the named
937.IR service ,
938and is therefore not allowed to release it.
939.SP
940.BI "peer-create-fail " peer
941(For
942.BR ADD .)
943Adding
944.I peer
945failed for some reason. A warning should have been emitted explaining
946why.
947.SP
948.BI "peer-addr-exists " address\fR...
949(For
950.BR ADD .)
951There is already a peer with the given
952.IR address .
953.SP
954.BI "peer-exists " peer
955(For
956.BR ADD .)
957There is already a peer named
958.IR peer .
959.SP
960.B "ping-send-failed"
961The attempt to send a ping packet failed, probably due to lack of
962encryption keys.
963.SP
964.BI "resolve-error " hostname
965(For
966.BR ADD .)
967The DNS name
968.I hostname
969could not be resolved.
970.SP
971.BI "resolver-timeout " hostname
972(For
973.BR ADD .)
974The DNS name
975.I hostname
976took too long to resolve.
977.SP
978.BI "service-exists " service " " version
979(For
980.BR SVCCLAIM .)
981Another client is already providing the stated
982.I version
983of the
984.IR service .
985.SP
986.BI "service-too-old " service " " version
987(For
988.B SVCENSURE
989and
990.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
991Only the given
992.I version
993of the requested
994.I service
995is available, which does not meet the stated requirements.
996.SP
997.BI "tag-exists " tag
998(For long-running commands.) The named
999.I tag
1000is already the tag of an outstanding job.
1001.SP
1002.BI "unknown-command " token
1003The command
1004.I token
1005was not recognized.
1006.SP
1007.BI "unknown-jobid " jobid
1008(For
1009.BR SVCOK ,
1010.BR SVCFAIL ,
1011and
1012.BR SVCINFO .)
1013The token
1014.I jobid
1015is not recognized as identifying an outstanding job. It may have just
1016been cancelled.
1017.SP
1018.BI "unknown-peer " name
1019(For
1020.BR ADDR ,
1021.BR IFNAME ,
1022.BR KILL ,
1023.BR SETIFNAME ,
1024and
1025.BR STATS .)
1026There is no peer called
1027.IR name .
1028.SP
1029.BI "unknown-port " port
1030(For
1031.BR ADD .)
1032The port name
1033.I port
1034couldn't be found in
1035.BR /etc/services .
1036.TP
1037.BI "unknown-service " service
1038(For
1039.BR SVCENSURE ,
1040.BR SVCQUERY ,
1041.BR SVCRELEASE ,
1042and
1043.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1044The token
1045.I service
1046is not recognized as the name of a client-provided service.
1047.TP
1048.BI "unknown-tag " tag
1049(For
1050.BR BGCANCEL .)
1051The given
1052.I tag
1053is not the tag for any outstanding background job. It may have just
1054finished.
1055.
1056.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1057.SH "NOTIFICATIONS"
1058.
1059.\"* 30 Notification broadcasts (NOTE codes)
1060The following notifications are sent to clients who request them.
1061.SP
1062.BI "ADD " peer " " ifname " " address \fR...
1063A new peer has been added. The peer's name is
1064.IR peer ,
1065its tunnel is network interface
1066.IR ifname ,
1067and its network address is
1068.IR address .
1069.SP
1070.BI "DAEMON"
1071The server has forked off into the sunset and become a daemon.
1072.SP
1073.BI "GREET " challenge " " address \fR...
1074A valid greeting was received, with the given challenge (exactly as it
1075was returned by
1076.B GETCHAL
1077earlier).
1078.SP
1079.BI "KILL " peer
1080The peer
1081.I peer
1082has been killed.
1083.SP
1084.BI "KXDONE " peer
1085Key exchange with
1086.I peer
1087finished successfully.
1088.SP
1089.BI "KXSTART " peer
1090Key exchange with
1091.I peer
1092has begun or restarted. If key exchange keeps failing, this message
1093will be repeated periodically.
1094.SP
1095.BI "NEWADDR " peer " " address
1096The given mobile
1097.IR peer 's
1098IP address has been changed to
1099.IR address .
1100.SP
1101.BI "NEWIFNAME " peer " " old-name " " new-name
1102The given
1103.IR peer 's
1104tunnel interface name has been changed from
1105.I old-name
1106to
1107.IR new-name ,
1108as a result of a
1109.B SETIFNAME
1110command.
1111.SP
1112.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
1113The named
1114.I service
1115is now available, at the stated
1116.IR version .
1117.SP
1118.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
1119The named
1120.I service
1121is no longer available.
1122.SP
1123.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1124An administration client issued a notification using the
1125.B NOTIFY
1126command.
1127.
1128.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1129.SH "WARNINGS"
1130.
1131.\"* 40 Warning broadcasts (WARN codes)
1132.\"+sep
1133There are many possible warnings. They are categorized according to
1134their first tokens.
1135.PP
1136Many of these warnings report system errors. These are reported as a
1137pair of tokens, described below as
1138.I ecode
1139and
1140.IR message .
1141The
1142.I ecode
1143is a string of the form
1144.BI E number
1145giving the
1146.BR errno (3)
1147value of the error; the
1148.I message
1149is the `human-readable' form of the message, as reported by
1150.BR strerror (3).
1151.SS "ABORT warnings"
1152These all indicate that the
1153.B tripe
1154server has become unable to continue. If enabled, the server will dump
1155core in its configuration directory.
1156.SP
1157.BI "ABORT repeated-select-errors"
1158The main event loop is repeatedly failing. If the server doesn't quit,
1159it will probably waste all available CPU doing nothing.
1160.SS "ADMIN warnings"
1161These indicate a problem with the administration socket interface.
1162.SP
1163.BI "ADMIN accept-error " ecode " " message
1164There was an error while attempting to accept a connection from a new
1165client.
1166.SP
1167.BI "ADMIN client-write-error " ecode " " message
1168There was an error sending data to a client. The connection to the
1169client has been closed.
1170.SS "CHAL warnings"
1171These indicate errors in challenges, either in the
1172.B CHECKCHAL
1173command or in greeting packets.
1174.SP
1175.B "CHAL impossible-challenge"
1176The server hasn't issued any challenges yet. Quite how anyone else
1177thought he could make one up is hard to imagine.
1178.SP
1179.B "CHAL incorrect-tag"
1180Challenge received contained the wrong authentication data. It might be
1181very stale, or a forgery.
1182.SP
1183.B "CHAL invalid-challenge"
1184Challenge received was the wrong length. We might have changed MAC
1185algorithms since the challenge was issued, or it might just be rubbish.
1186.SP
1187.B "CHAL replay duplicated-sequence"
1188Challenge received was a definite replay of an old challenge. Someone's
1189up to something!
1190.SP
1191.B "CHAL replay old-sequence"
1192Challenge received was old, but maybe not actually a replay. Try again.
1193.SS "KEYMGMT warnings"
1194These indicate a problem with the keyring files, or the keys stored in
1195them.
1196.SP
1197.BI "KEYMGMT bad-private-key " message
1198The private key could not be read, or failed a consistency check. If
1199there was a problem with the file, usually there will have been
1200.B key-file-error
1201warnings before this.
1202.SP
1203.BI "KEYMGMT bad-public-keyring " message
1204The public keyring couldn't be read. Usually, there will have been
1205.B key-file-error
1206warnings before this.
1207.SP
1208.BI "KEYMGMT key-file-error " file ":" line " " message
1209Reports a specific error with the named keyring file. This probably
1210indicates a bug in
1211.BR key (1).
1212.SP
1213.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " " tokens\fR...
1214These messages all indicate a problem with the public key named
1215.IR tag .
1216.SP
1217.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " algorithm-mismatch"
1218The algorithms specified on the public key don't match the ones for our
1219private key. All the peers in a network have to use the same
1220algorithms.
1221.SP
1222.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " bad " message
1223The public key couldn't be read, or is invalid.
1224.SP
1225.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " bad-public-group-element"
1226The public key is invalid. This may indicate a malicious attempt to
1227introduce a bogus key.
1228.SP
1229.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " bad-algorithm-selection"
1230The algorithms listed on the public key couldn't be understood. The
1231algorithm selection attributes are probably malformed and need fixing.
1232.SP
1233.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " incorrect-group"
1234The public key doesn't use the same group as our private key. All the
1235peers in a network have to use the same group.
1236.SP
1237.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " not-found"
1238The public key for peer
1239.I tag
1240wasn't in the public keyring.
1241.SP
1242.BI "KEYMGMT public-key " tag " unknown-type"
1243The type of the public key isn't understood. Maybe you need to upgrade
1244your copy of
1245.BR tripe .
1246(Even if you do, you'll have to regenerate your keys.)
1247.SS "KX warnings"
1248These indicate problems during key-exchange. Many indicate either a bug
1249in the server (either yours or the remote one), or some kind of attack
1250in progress. All name a
1251.I peer
1252as the second token: this is the peer the packet is apparently from,
1253though it may have been sent by an attacker instead.
1254.PP
1255In the descriptions below,
1256.I msgtoken
1257is one of the tokens
1258.BR pre-challenge ,
1259.BR cookie ,
1260.BR challenge ,
1261.BR reply ,
1262.BR switch-rq ,
1263or
1264.BR switch-ok .
1265.SP
1266.BI "KX " peer " bad-expected-reply-log"
1267The challenges
1268.B tripe
1269uses in its protocol contain a check value which proves that the
1270challenge is honest. This message indicates that the check value
1271supplied is wrong: someone is attempting to use bogus challenges to
1272persuade your
1273.B tripe
1274server to leak private key information. No chance!
1275.SP
1276.BI "KX " peer " decrypt-failed reply\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
1277A symmetrically-encrypted portion of a key-exchange message failed to
1278decrypt.
1279.SP
1280.BI "KX " peer " invalid " msgtoken
1281A key-exchange message was malformed. This almost certainly indicates a
1282bug somewhere.
1283.SP
1284.BI "KX " peer " incorrect cookie\fR|\fBswitch-rq\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
1285A message didn't contain the right magic data. This may be a replay of
1286some old exchange, or random packets being sent in an attempt to waste
1287CPU.
1288.SP
1289.BI "KX " peer " public-key-expired"
1290The peer's public key has expired. It's maintainer should have given
1291you a replacement before now.
1292.SP
1293.BI "KX " peer " sending-cookie"
1294We've received too many bogus pre-challenge messages. Someone is trying
1295to flood us with key-exchange messages and make us waste CPU on doing
1296hard asymmetric crypto sums.
1297.SP
1298.BI "KX " peer " unexpected " msgtoken
1299The message received wasn't appropriate for this stage of the key
1300exchange process. This may mean that one of our previous packets got
1301lost. For
1302.BR pre-challenge ,
1303it may simply mean that the peer has recently restarted.
1304.SP
1305.BI "KX " peer " unknown-challenge"
1306The peer is asking for an answer to a challenge which we don't know
1307about. This may mean that we've been inundated with challenges from
1308some malicious source
1309.I who can read our messages
1310and discarded the valid one.
1311.SP
1312.BI "KX " peer " unknown-message 0x" nn
1313An unknown key-exchange message arrived.
1314.SS "PEER warnings"
1315These are largely concerned with management of peers and the low-level
1316details of the network protocol. The second token is usually the name of
1317a peer, or
1318.RB ` \- '
1319if none is relevant.
1320.SP
1321.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet no-type"
1322An empty packet arrived. This is very strange.
1323.SP
1324.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-category 0x" nn
1325The message category
1326.I nn
1327(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1328somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
1329.SP
1330.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-type 0x" nn
1331The message type
1332.I nn
1333(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1334somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
1335.SP
1336.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-encrypted-ping"
1337The peer sent a ping response which matches an outstanding ping, but its
1338payload is wrong. There's definitely a bug somewhere.
1339.SP
1340.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-transport-ping"
1341The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which matches an outstanding
1342ping, but its payload is wrong. Either there's a bug, or the bad guys
1343are playing tricks on you.
1344.SP
1345.BI "PEER " peer " decrypt-failed"
1346An encrypted IP packet failed to decrypt. It may have been mangled in
1347transit, or may be a very old packet from an expired previous session
1348key. There is usually a considerable overlap in the validity periods of
1349successive session keys, so this shouldn't occur unless the key exchange
1350takes ages or fails.
1351.SP
1352.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-encrypted-ping"
1353The peer sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid. There's
1354definitely a bug somewhere.
1355.SP
1356.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-transport-ping"
1357The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid.
1358Either there's a bug, or the bad guys are playing tricks on you.
1359.SP
1360.BI "PEER " peer " packet-build-failed"
1361There wasn't enough space in our buffer to put the packet we wanted to
1362send. Shouldn't happen.
1363.SP
1364.BI "PEER \- socket-read-error " ecode " " message
1365An error occurred trying to read an incoming packet.
1366.SP
1367.BI "PEER " peer " socket-write-error " ecode " " message
1368An error occurred attempting to send a network packet. We lost that
1369one.
1370.SP
1371.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-encrypted-ping 0x" id
1372The peer sent an encrypted ping response whose id doesn't match any
1373outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the server was
1374willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad.
1375.SP
1376.BI "PEER \- unexpected-source " address\fR...
1377A packet arrived from
1378.I address
1379(a network address \(en see above), but no peer is known at that
1380address. This may indicate a misconfiguration, or simply be a result of
1381one end of a connection being set up before the other.
1382.SP
1383.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-transport-ping 0x" id
1384The peer (apparently) sent a transport ping response whose id doesn't
1385match any outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the
1386server was willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad; or maybe
1387there are bad people trying to confuse you.
1388.SS "SERVER warnings"
1389These indicate problems concerning the server process as a whole.
1390.SP
1391.BI "SERVER ignore signal " name
1392A signal arrived, but the server ignored it. Currently this happens for
1393.B SIGHUP
1394because that's a popular way of telling daemons to re-read their
1395configuration files. Since
1396.B tripe
1397re-reads its keyrings automatically and has no other configuration
1398files, it's not relevant, but it seemed better to ignore the signal than
1399let the server die.
1400.SP
1401.BI "SERVER quit signal " \fR[\fInn\fR|\fIname\fR]
1402A signal arrived and
1403.B tripe
1404is going to quit.
1405.SP
1406.BI "SERVER quit admin-request"
1407A client of the administration interface issued a
1408.B QUIT
1409command.
1410.SP
1411.BI "SERVER quit foreground-eof"
1412The server is running in foreground mode (the
1413.B \-F
1414option), and encountered end-of-file on standard input.
1415.SP
1416.BI "SERVER select-error " ecode " " message
1417An error occurred in the server's main event loop. This is bad: if it
1418happens too many times, the server will abort.
1419.SS "SYMM warnings"
1420These are concerned with the symmetric encryption and decryption
1421process.
1422.SP
1423.BI "SYMM replay old-sequence"
1424A packet was received with an old sequence number. It may just have
1425been delayed or duplicated, or it may have been an attempt at a replay
1426attack.
1427.SP
1428.BI "SYMM replay duplicated-sequence"
1429A packet was received with a sequence number we've definitely seen
1430before. It may be an accidental duplication because the 'net is like
1431that, or a deliberate attempt at a replay.
1432.SS "TUN warnings"
1433These concern the workings of the system-specific tunnel driver. The
1434second token is the name of the tunnel interface in question, or
1435.RB ` \- '
1436if none.
1437.SP
1438.BI "TUN \- bsd no-tunnel-devices"
1439The driver couldn't find an available tunnel device. Maybe if you
1440create some more
1441.BI /dev/tun nn
1442files, it will work.
1443.SP
1444.BI "TUN \- " tun-name " open-error " device " " ecode " " message
1445An attempt to open the tunnel device file
1446.I device
1447failed.
1448.SP
1449.BI "TUN \- linux config-error " ecode " " message
1450Configuring the Linux TUN/TAP interface failed.
1451.SP
1452.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " read-error " ecode " " message
1453Reading from the tunnel device failed.
1454.SP
1455.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " write-error " ecode " " message
1456Writing from the tunnel device failed.
1457.SP
1458.BI "TUN " ifname " slip bad-escape"
1459The SLIP driver encountered a escaped byte it wasn't expecting to see.
1460The erroneous packet will be ignored.
1461.SP
1462.BI "TUN " ifname " slip eof"
1463The SLIP driver encountered end-of-file on its input descriptor.
1464Pending data is discarded, and no attempt is made to read any more data
1465from that interface ever.
1466.SP
1467.BI "TUN " ifname " slip escape-end"
1468The SLIP driver encountered an escaped `end' marker. This probably
1469means that someone's been sending it junk. The erroneous packet is
1470discarded, and we hope that we've rediscovered synchronization.
1471.SP
1472.BI "TUN \- slip fork-error " ecode " " message
1473The SLIP driver encountered an error forking a child process while
1474allocating a new dynamic interface.
1475.SP
1476.BI "TUN \- slip no-slip-interfaces"
1477The driver ran out of static SLIP interfaces. Either preallocate more,
1478or use dynamic SLIP interface allocation.
1479.SP
1480.BI "TUN " ifname " slip overflow"
1481The SLIP driver gave up reading a packet because it got too large.
1482.SP
1483.BI "TUN \- slip pipe-error " ecode " " message
1484The SLIP driver encountered an error creating pipes while allocating a
1485new dynamic interface.
1486.SP
1487.BI "TUN \- slip read-ifname-failed " ecode " " message
1488The SLIP driver encountered an error reading the name of a dynamically
1489allocated interface. Maybe the allocation script is broken.
1490.SP
1491.BI "TUN \- unet config-error " ecode " " message
1492Configuring the Linux Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete and
1493shouldn't be used any more.
1494.SP
1495.BI "TUN \- unet getinfo-error " ecode " " message
1496Reading information about the Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete
1497and shouldn't be used any more.
1498.SS "USER warnings"
1499These are issued by administration clients using the
1500.B WARN
1501command.
1502.SP
1503.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1504An administration client issued a warning.
1505.\"-sep
1506.
1507.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1508.SH "SUMMARY"
1509.
1510.SS "Command responses"
1511.nf
1512.BI "BGDETACH " tag
1513.BI "BGFAIL " tag " " tokens \fR...
1514.BI "BGINFO " tag " " tokens \fR...
1515.BI "BGOK " tag
1516.BI "FAIL " tokens \fR...
1517.BI "INFO " tokens \fR...
1518.B OK
1519.fi
1520.\"= summary
1521.
1522.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1523.SH "SEE ALSO"
1524.
1525.BR tripectl (1),
1526.BR tripe (8).
1527.PP
1528.IR "The Trivial IP Encryption Protocol" .
1529.
1530.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1531.SH "AUTHOR"
1532.
1533Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
1534.
1535.\"----- That's all, folks --------------------------------------------------