See also Communication Debugging - Status, tracing, and debugging communications and protocols.

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Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?

perl5 module for getting the value of the C Ioctl constants. p5-Ioctl-0.81 Perl module that provides a way to get the value of C ioctl constants

(Perl builtin function) accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET Accepts an incoming socket connect.

(Perl builtin function) bind SOCKET,NAME Binds a network address to a socket.

(Perl builtin function) connect SOCKET,NAME Attempts to connect to a remote socket.

(Perl builtin function) getpeername SOCKET Returns the packed sockaddr address of other end of the SOCKET connection.

(Perl builtin function) getsockname SOCKET Returns the packed sockaddr address of this end of the SOCKET connection.

(Perl builtin function) getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME Returns the socket option requested.

(Perl builtin function) listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE Does the same thing that the listen system call does.

(Perl builtin function) recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LEN,FLAGS Receives a message on a socket.

(Perl builtin function) select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT This calls the select(2) system call with the bit masks specified, which can be constructed using fileno() and vec().

(Perl builtin function) send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO Sends a message on a socket.

(Perl builtin function) setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL Sets the socket option requested.

(Perl builtin function) shutdown SOCKET,HOW Shuts down a socket connection

(Perl builtin function) socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL Opens a socket of the specified kind.

Net::Gen - Generic sockets interface. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Net::Inet - Basic services for socket-based communications. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Net::TCP - Provides TCP communication over sockets. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Net::UDP - Provides UDP communication over sockets. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components