Commit 126acd5b authored by Gerrit Renker's avatar Gerrit Renker Committed by David S. Miller

[DCCP]: Update API documentation

This adds documentation on the use of service codes on client and
server.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 042d18f9
......@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ Socket options
DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVICE sets the service. The specification mandates use of
service codes (RFC 4340, sec. 8.1.2); if this socket option is not set,
the socket will fall back to 0 (which means that no meaningful service code
is present). Connecting sockets set at most one service option; for
listening sockets, multiple service codes can be specified.
is present). On active sockets this is set before connect(); specifying more
than one code has no effect (all subsequent service codes are ignored). The
case is different for passive sockets, where multiple service codes (up to 32)
can be set before calling bind().
DCCP_SOCKOPT_GET_CUR_MPS is read-only and retrieves the current maximum packet
size (application payload size) in bytes, see RFC 4340, section 14.
......@@ -124,5 +126,5 @@ Notes
=====
DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present on many boxes. This is
because the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. Linux NAT
because the checksum covers the pseudo-header as per TCP and UDP. Linux NAT
support for DCCP has been added.
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