HP-UX LAN Administrator's Guide (Feburary 2007)

Table Of Contents
DRAFT COPY Manually Installing and Configuring HP-UX LAN
Activating Optional Network Features
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Blank line entries are allowed.
Only one entry per line is allowed.
/etc/protocols Permissions
The /etc/protocols file should be owned by user bin, group bin, and it should have 0x444
(-r--r--r--) access permission.
Refer to the /etc/protocols file for examples of actual format and contents. For more
information on /etc/protocols, refer to the protocols(4) man page in the HP-UX
Reference Pages.
/etc/protocols Example
The following /etc/protocols entry contains a protocol name, protocol number and an alias
name.
tcp 6 TCP