186 lines
4.3 KiB
Groff
186 lines
4.3 KiB
Groff
.TH IPSEC_ATOASR 3 "11 June 2001"
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.SH NAME
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ipsec atoasr \- convert ASCII to Internet address, subnet, or range
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.br
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ipsec rangetoa \- convert Internet address range to ASCII
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B "#include <freeswan.h>
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.sp
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.B "const char *atoasr(const char *src, size_t srclen,"
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.ti +1c
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.B "char *type, struct in_addr *addrs);"
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.br
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.B "size_t rangetoa(struct in_addr *addrs, int format,
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.ti +1c
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.B "char *dst, size_t dstlen);"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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These functions are obsolete;
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there is no current equivalent,
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because so far they have not proved useful.
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.PP
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.I Atoasr
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converts an ASCII address, subnet, or address range
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into a suitable combination of binary addresses
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(in network byte order).
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.I Rangetoa
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converts an address range back into ASCII,
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using dotted-decimal form for the addresses
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(the other reverse conversions are handled by
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.IR ipsec_addrtoa (3)
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and
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.IR ipsec_subnettoa (3)).
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.PP
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A single address can be any form acceptable to
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.IR ipsec_atoaddr (3):
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dotted decimal, DNS name, or hexadecimal number.
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A subnet
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specification uses the form \fInetwork\fB/\fImask\fR
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interpreted by
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.IR ipsec_atosubnet (3).
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.PP
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An address range is two
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.IR ipsec_atoaddr (3)
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addresses separated by a
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.B ...
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delimiter.
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If there are four dots rather than three, the first is taken as
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part of the begin address,
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e.g. for a complete DNS name which ends with
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.B .
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to suppress completion attempts.
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The begin address of a range must be
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less than or equal to the end address.
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.PP
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The
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.I srclen
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parameter of
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.I atoasr
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specifies the length of the ASCII string pointed to by
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.IR src ;
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it is an error for there to be anything else
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(e.g., a terminating NUL) within that length.
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As a convenience for cases where an entire NUL-terminated string is
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to be converted,
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a
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.I srclen
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value of
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.B 0
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is taken to mean
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.BR strlen(src) .
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.PP
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The
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.I type
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parameter of
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.I atoasr
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must point to a
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.B char
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variable used to record which form was found.
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The
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.I addrs
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parameter must point to a two-element array of
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.B "struct in_addr"
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which receives the results.
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The values stored into
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.BR *type ,
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and the corresponding values in the array, are:
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.PP
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.ta 3c +2c +3c
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*type addrs[0] addrs[1]
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.sp 0.8
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address \&\fB'a'\fR address -
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.br
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subnet \&\fB's'\fR network mask
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.br
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range \&\fB'r'\fR begin end
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.PP
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The
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.I dstlen
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parameter of
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.I rangetoa
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specifies the size of the
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.I dst
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parameter;
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under no circumstances are more than
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.I dstlen
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bytes written to
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.IR dst .
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A result which will not fit is truncated.
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.I Dstlen
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can be zero, in which case
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.I dst
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need not be valid and no result is written,
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but the return value is unaffected;
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in all other cases, the (possibly truncated) result is NUL-terminated.
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The
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.I freeswan.h
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header file defines a constant,
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.BR RANGETOA_BUF ,
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which is the size of a buffer just large enough for worst-case results.
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.PP
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The
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.I format
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parameter of
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.I rangetoa
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specifies what format is to be used for the conversion.
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The value
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.B 0
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(not the ASCII character
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.BR '0' ,
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but a zero value)
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specifies a reasonable default,
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and is in fact the only format currently available.
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This parameter is a hedge against future needs.
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.PP
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.I Atoasr
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returns NULL for success and
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a pointer to a string-literal error message for failure;
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see DIAGNOSTICS.
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.I Rangetoa
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returns
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.B 0
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for a failure, and otherwise
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always returns the size of buffer which would
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be needed to
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accommodate the full conversion result, including terminating NUL;
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it is the caller's responsibility to check this against the size of
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the provided buffer to determine whether truncation has occurred.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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ipsec_atoaddr(3), ipsec_atosubnet(3)
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
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Fatal errors in
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.I atoasr
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are:
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empty input;
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error in
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.IR ipsec_atoaddr (3)
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or
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.IR ipsec_atosubnet (3)
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during conversion;
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begin address of range exceeds end address.
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.PP
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Fatal errors in
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.I rangetoa
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are:
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unknown format.
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.SH HISTORY
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Written for the FreeS/WAN project by Henry Spencer.
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.SH BUGS
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The restriction of error reports to literal strings
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(so that callers don't need to worry about freeing them or copying them)
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does limit the precision of error reporting.
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.PP
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The error-reporting convention lends itself
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to slightly obscure code,
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because many readers will not think of NULL as signifying success.
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A good way to make it clearer is to write something like:
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.PP
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.RS
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.nf
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.B "const char *error;"
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.sp
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.B "error = atoasr( /* ... */ );"
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.B "if (error != NULL) {"
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.B " /* something went wrong */"
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.fi
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.RE
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