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34.\" @(#)udp.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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36.Dd March 18, 2015
37.Dt UDP 4
38.Os BSD 4.2
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm udp
41.Nd Internet User Datagram Protocol
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Fd #include <sys/socket.h>
44.Fd #include <netinet/in.h>
45.Ft int
46.Fn socket AF_INET SOCK_DGRAM 0
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48.Tn UDP
49is a simple, unreliable datagram protocol which is used
50to support the
51.Dv SOCK_DGRAM
52abstraction for the Internet
53protocol family.
54.Tn UDP
55sockets are connectionless, and are
56normally used with the
57.Xr sendto
58and
59.Xr recvfrom
60calls, though the
61.Xr connect 2
62or
63.Xr connectx 2
64call may also be used to fix the destination for future
65packets (in which case the
66.Xr recv 2
67or
68.Xr read 2
69and
70.Xr send 2
71or
72.Xr write 2
73system calls may be used).
74.Pp
75.Tn UDP
76address formats are identical to those used by
77.Tn TCP .
78In particular
79.Tn UDP
80provides a port identifier in addition
81to the normal Internet address format. Note that the
82.Tn UDP
83port
84space is separate from the
85.Tn TCP
86port space (i.e. a
87.Tn UDP
88port
89may not be
90.Dq connected
91to a
92.Tn TCP
93port). In addition broadcast
94packets may be sent (assuming the underlying network supports
95this) by using a reserved
96.Dq broadcast address ;
97this address
98is network interface dependent.
99.Pp
100Options at the
101.Tn IP
102transport level may be used with
103.Tn UDP ;
104see
105.Xr ip 4 .
106.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
107A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned:
108.Bl -tag -width [EADDRNOTAVAIL]
109.It Bq Er EISCONN
110when trying to establish a connection on a socket which
111already has one, or when trying to send a datagram with the destination
112address specified and the socket is already connected;
113.It Bq Er ENOTCONN
114when trying to send a datagram, but
115no destination address is specified, and the socket hasn't been
116connected;
117.It Bq Er ENOBUFS
118when the system runs out of memory for
119an internal data structure;
120.It Bq Er EADDRINUSE
121when an attempt
122is made to create a socket with a port which has already been
123allocated;
124.It Bq Er EADDRNOTAVAIL
125when an attempt is made to create a
126socket with a network address for which no network interface
127exists.
128.El
129.Sh SEE ALSO
130.Xr connect 2 ,
131.Xr connectx 2 ,
132.Xr getsockopt 2 ,
133.Xr recv 2 ,
134.Xr send 2 ,
135.Xr socket 2 ,
136.Xr inet 4 ,
137.Xr intro 4 ,
138.Xr ip 4
139.Sh HISTORY
140The
141.Nm
142protocol appeared in
143.Bx 4.2 .