What socket protocol/address families are supported ?

[Till Straumann]

On 11/01/2010 04:32 PM, Eric Norum wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Oyake, Amalaye (3424) wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> what protocol/address families does the RTEMS BSD Socket API support (beyond
>> the generic AF_INET)?
>>
> None, I believe.

I know there are some #ifdef sections dealing with AF_IPX and 
AF_APPLETALK. Maybe one of these could be supported by enabling
the respective code sections - maybe additional stuff is needed,
I don't know.

-- T.

>
>> Does it support support all the ones that Linux supports (seen below)?
>>
>>        Name                Purpose                          Man page
>>        AF_UNIX, AF_LOCAL   Local communication              unix(7)
>>        AF_INET             IPv4 Internet protocols          ip(7)
>>        AF_INET6            IPv6 Internet protocols          ipv6(7)
>>        AF_IPX              IPX - Novell protocols
>>        AF_NETLINK          Kernel user interface device     netlink(7)
>>        AF_X25              ITU-T X.25 / ISO-8208 protocol   x25(7)
>>        AF_AX25             Amateur radio AX.25 protocol
>>        AF_ATMPVC           Access to raw ATM PVCs
>>        AF_APPLETALK        Appletalk                        ddp(7)
>>        AF_PACKET           Low level packet interface       packet(7)
>>
>> Regards,
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