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3.\" Manual for the administration protocol
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5.\" (c) 2008 Straylight/Edgeware
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25.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
e99aedcf 26.so ../common/defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@
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28.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
0647ba7c 29.TH tripe-admin 5tripe "18 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption"
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31.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
32.SH "NAME"
33.
d6623498 34tripe-admin \- administrator commands for TrIPE
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36.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
37.SH "DESCRIPTION"
38.
d6623498 39This manual page describes the administration interface provided by the
40.BR tripe (8)
41daemon.
42.PP
43The
44.BR tripectl (8)
45program can be used either interactively or in scripts to communicate
46with the server using this interface. Alternatively, simple custom
47clients can be written in scripting languages such as Perl, Python or
48Tcl, or more advanced clients such as GUI monitors can be written in C
49with little difficulty.
50.PP
37941236 51Administration commands use a textual protocol. Each client command or
52server response consists of a line of ASCII text terminated by a single
53linefeed character. No command may be longer than 255 characters.
d6623498 54.SS "General structure"
55Each command or response line consists of a sequence of
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56whitespace-separated tokens. The number and nature of whitespace
57characters separating two tokens in a client command is not significant;
58the server always uses a single space character. The first token in a
d6623498 59line is a
60.I keyword
61identifying the type of command or response contained. Keywords in
62client commands are not case-sensitive; the server always uses uppercase
63for its keywords.
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64.PP
65In order to allow tokens to contain internal whitespace, a quoting
66mechanism is provided. Whitespace within matched pairs of quotes \(en
67either single
68.RB ` ' '
69or double
70.RB ` """" '
71\(en is considered to be internal. Any character (other than newline)
72may be escaped by preceding it with a backslash
73.RB ` \e ':
74in particular, this can be used to include quote characters. It is
75impossible for a token to contain a newline character.
76.PP
77On output, the server will use double quotes when necessary.
de014da6 78.SS "Simple commands"
79For simple client command, the server responds with zero or more
d6623498 80.B INFO
81lines, followed by either an
82.B OK
83line or a
84.B FAIL
85line. Each
86.B INFO
87provides information requested in the command. An
88.B OK
89response contains no further data. A
90.B FAIL
3cdc3f3a 91code is followed by a machine-readable explanation of why the command
d6623498 92failed.
93.PP
de014da6 94Simple command processing is strictly synchronous: the server reads a
95command, processes it, and responds, before reading the next command.
96All commands can be run as simple commands. Long-running commands
97(e.g.,
98.B ADD
99and
100.BR PING )
101block the client until they finish, but the rest of the server continues
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102running. See
103.B "Background commands"
104to find out how to issue long-running commands without blocking.
105.SS "Asynchronous broadcasts"
106There are three types of asynchronous broadcast messages which aren't
107associated with any particular command. Clients can select which
108broadcast messages they're interested in using the
109.B WATCH
110command.
de014da6 111.PP
112The
d6623498 113.B WARN
3cdc3f3a 114message contains a machine-readable message warning of an error
d6623498 115encountered while processing a command, unexpected or unusual behaviour
116by a peer, or a possible attack by an adversary. Under normal
de014da6 117conditions, the server shouldn't emit any warnings.
118.PP
119The
d6623498 120.B TRACE
3cdc3f3a 121message contains a human-readable tracing message containing diagnostic
d6623498 122information. Trace messages are controlled using the
123.B \-T
124command-line option to the server, or the
125.B TRACE
126administration command (see below). Support for tracing can be disabled
127when the package is being configured, and may not be available in your
de014da6 128version.
129.PP
130Finally, the
3cdc3f3a 131.B NOTE
132message is a machine-readable notification about some routine but
133interesting event such as creation or destruction of peers.
de014da6 134.SS "Background commands"
135Some commands (e.g.,
136.B ADD
137and
138.BR PING )
139take a long time to complete. To prevent these long-running commands
140from tying up a server connection, they can be run in the background.
141Not all commands can be run like this: the ones that can provide a
142.B \-background
143option, which must be supplied with a
144.IR tag .
145.PP
146A command may fail before it starts running in the background. In this
147case, the server emits a
148.B FAIL
149response, as usual. To indicate that a command has started running in
150the background, the server emits a response of the form
151.BI "BGDETACH " tag \fR,
152where
153.I tag
154is the value passed to the
155.B \-background
156option. From this point on, the server is ready to process more
157commands and reply to them.
158.PP
159Responses to background commands are indicated by a line beginning with
e04c2d50 160one of the tokens
de014da6 161.BR BGOK ,
162.BR BGFAIL ,
163or
164.BR BGINFO ,
e04c2d50 165followed by the command tag. These correspond to the
de014da6 166.BR OK ,
167.BR FAIL ,
168and
169.B INFO
170responses for simple commands:
171.B BGINFO
172indicates information from a background command which has not completed
173yet; and
174.B BGOK
175and
176.B BGFAIL
177indicates that a background command succeeded or failed, respectively.
178.PP
179A background command will never issue an
180.B OK
060ca767 181or
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060ca767 183response: it will always detach and then issue any
184.B BGINFO
185lines followed by
de014da6 186.B BGOK
187response.
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188.SS "Client-provided services"
189.\"* 25 Service-related messages
190An administration client can provide services to other clients.
191Services are given names and versions. A client can attempt to
192.I claim
193a particular service by issuing the
194.B SVCCLAIM
195command. This may fail, for example, if some other client already
196provides the same or later version of the service.
197.PP
198Other clients can issue
199.I "service commands"
200using the
201.B "SVCSUBMIT"
202command; the service provider is expected to handle these commands and
203reply to them.
204.PP
205There are three important asynchronous messages which will be sent to
206service providers.
207.SP
208.BI "SVCCANCEL " jobid
209The named job has been cancelled, either because the issuing client has
210disconnected or explicitly cancelled the job using the
211.B BGCANCEL
212command.
213.SP
214.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
215Another client has claimed a later version of the named
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216.IR service .
217The recipient is no longer the provider of this service.
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218.SP
219.BI "SVCJOB " jobid " " service " " command " " args \fR...
220Announces the arrival of a new job. The
221.I jobid
222is a simple token consisting of alphanumeric characters which
223.B tripe
224uses to identify this job.
225.PP
226The service provider can reply to the job using the commands
227.BR SVCINFO ,
228.B SVCOK
229and
230.BR SVCFAIL .
231The first of these sends an
232.B INFO
233response and leaves the job active; the other two send an
234.B OK
235or
236.B FAIL
237response respectively, and mark the job as being complete.
238.PP
239(Since
240.B SVCSUBMIT
241is a potentially long-running command, it can be run in the background.
242This detail is hidden from service providers:
243.B tripe
244will issue the corresponding
245.BR BG ...
246responses when appropriate.)
3cdc3f3a 247.SS "Network addresses"
83487ded 248A network address is a sequence of tokens. The first is a token
3cdc3f3a 249identifying the network address family. The length of an address and
83487ded 250the meanings of the subsequent tokens depend on the address family.
3cdc3f3a 251Address family tokens are not case-sensitive on input; on output, they
252are always in upper-case.
253.PP
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254The following address families are recognized.
255.TP
256.BI "ANY " address " \fR[" port \fR]
257An address and port number for any supported address family. On output,
258.B tripe
259never uses this form. On input, the
260.I address
261is examined: if it is a numeric address for some recognized address
262family, then it is interpreted as such; otherwise it is looked up using
263the DNS (in the background). The background resolver's address-sorting
264rules apply, and
265.B tripe
266simply takes the first address in the returned list which is of a
267supported address family. Symbolic port numbers are permitted; if
268omitted, the default port 4070 is used.
3cdc3f3a 269.TP
165efde7 270.BI "INET " address " \fR[" port \fR]
3cdc3f3a 271An Internet socket, naming an IPv4 address and UDP port. On output, the
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272.I address
273is always in numeric dotted-quad form, and the
274.I port
275is given as a plain decimal number. On input, DNS hostnames and
276symbolic port names are permitted; if omitted, the default port 4070 is
277used.
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279.BI "INET6 " address " \fR[" port \fR]
280An Internet socket, naming an IPv6 address and UDP port. On output, the
281.I address
282is always in numeric hex-and-colons form, and the
283.I port
284is given as a plain decimal number. On input, DNS hostnames and
285symbolic port names may be permitted, depending on how
286.B tripe
287was compiled; if omitted, the default port 4070 is used.
3cdc3f3a 288.PP
78dcf842 289If, on input, no recognized address family token is found, the following
83487ded 290tokens are assumed to represent an
870ff51a 291.B ANY
2acd7cd6 292address. Addresses output by the server always have an address family
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293token, and do not use
294.BR ANY .
295.PP
296Name resolution never blocks the main server, but will block the
297requesting client, unless the command is run in the background.
060ca767 298.SS "Key-value output"
299Some commands (e.g.,
300.B STATS
301and
302.BR SERVINFO )
303produce output in the form of
304.IB key = value
83487ded 305pairs, one per token. Neither the
060ca767 306.I key
307nor the
308.I value
309contain spaces.
310.SS "Trace lists"
311Commands which enable or disable kinds of output (e.g.,
312.B TRACE
313and
314.BR WATCH )
315work in similar ways. They take a single optional argument, which
316consists of a string of letters selecting message types, optionally
317interspersed with
318.RB ` + '
319to enable, or
320.RB ` \- '
321to disable, the subsequently listed types.
322.PP
323If the argument is omitted, the available message types are displayed,
324one to an
325.B INFO
326line, in a fixed-column format. Column zero contains the key letter for
327selecting that message type; column one contains either a space or a
e04c2d50 328.RB ` + '
060ca767 329sign, if the message type is disabled or enabled respectively; and a
330textual description of the message type begins at column 3 and continues
331to the end of the line.
332.PP
333Lowercase key letters control individual message types. Uppercase key
334letters control collections of message types.
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3cdc3f3a 337.SH "COMMAND REFERENCE"
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13a55605 339.\"* 10 Commands
d6623498 340The commands provided are:
13a55605 341.SP
9986f0b5 342.BI "ADD \fR[" options "\fR] " peer " " address "\fR..."
3cdc3f3a 343Adds a new peer. The peer is given the name
344.IR peer ;
345the peer's public key is assumed to be in the file
346.B keyring.pub
347(or whatever alternative file was specified in the
348.B \-K
349option on the command line). The
350.I address
351is the network address (see above for the format) at which the peer can
78dcf842 352be contacted. The following options are recognized.
42da2a58 353.RS
13a55605 354.\"+opts
42da2a58 355.TP
de014da6 356.BI "\-background " tag
357Run the command in the background, using the given
358.IR tag .
359.TP
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360.B "\-cork"
361Don't send an immediate challenge to the peer; instead, wait until it
362sends us something before responding.
363.TP
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364.B "\-ephemeral"
365The association with the peer is not intended to persist indefinitely.
136f3f44 366When a peer is killed, or the
067aa5f0 367.BR tripe (8)
136f3f44 368daemon is shut down, a
067aa5f0 369.B bye
136f3f44 370packet is to the peer(s). If a peer marked as ephemeral sends us a
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371.B bye
372packet then it is killed (but in this case no further
373.B bye
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374packet is sent). A
375.B bye
376packet from a peer which isn't marked as ephemeral leaves the peer alone
377in the hope that the connection can be reestablished.
067aa5f0 378.TP
0ba8de86 379.BI "\-keepalive " time
380Send a no-op packet if we've not sent a packet to the peer in the last
381.I time
382interval. This is useful for persuading port-translating firewalls to
383believe that the `connection' is still active. The
384.I time
385is expressed as a nonnegative integer followed optionally by
386.BR d ,
387.BR h ,
388.BR m ,
389or
390.BR s
391for days, hours, minutes, or seconds respectively; if no suffix is
392given, seconds are assumed.
393.TP
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394.BI "\-key " tag
395Use the public key
396.I tag
397to authenticate the peer. The default is to use the key tagged
398.IR peer .
399.TP
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400.BI "\-knock \fR[" prefix .\fR] tag
401Send the string
402.RI [ prefix\fB. ] tag
403in
404.B token-rq
405and
406.B knock
407messages to the peer during key-exchange. The string as a whole should
408name the local machine to the peer, and
409.I tag
410should name its public key. When such messages are received from a
411currently unknown peer,
412.BR tripe (8)
413emits a
414.B KNOCK
415notification stating the peer's (claimed) name and address. The server
416will already have verified that the sender is using the peer's private
c60b5015 417key by this point. Prior to version 1.6.0, this option used to imply
067aa5f0 418.BR \-ephemeral .
8362ac1c 419.TP
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420.B "\-mobile"
421The peer is a mobile device, and is likely to change address rapidly.
422If a packet arrives from an unknown address, the server's usual response
423is to log a warning and discard it. If the server knows of any mobile
424peers, however, it will attempt to decrypt the packet using their keys,
425and if one succeeds, the server will update its idea of the peer's
426address and emit an
427.B NEWADDR
c60b5015 428notification. Prior to version 1.6.0, this option used to imply
067aa5f0 429.BR \-ephemeral .
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431.BI "\-priv " tag
432Use the private key
433.I tag
434to authenticate to the peer. The default is to use the key named in the
435.RB ` \-t '
436command-line option, or a key with type
437.B tripe
438or
439.BR tripe-dh :
440see
441.BR tripe (8)
442for the details.
443.TP
0ba8de86 444.BI "\-tunnel " tunnel
42da2a58 445Use the named tunnel driver, rather than the default.
13a55605 446.\"-opts
42da2a58 447.RE
13a55605 448.SP
3cdc3f3a 449.BI "ADDR " peer
450Emits an
451.B INFO
452line reporting the IP address and port number stored for
453.IR peer .
13a55605 454.SP
35c8b547 455.BI "ALGS \fR[" peer \fR]
449991a3 456Emits information about the cryptographic algorithms in use, in
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457key-value form. If a
458.I peer
459is given, then describe the algorithms used in the association with that
460peer; otherwise describe the default algorithms.
449991a3 461.RS
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462.PP
463The keys are as follows.
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464.TP
465.B kx-group
466Type of key-exchange group in use, currently either
467.B ec
468or
469.BR prime .
470.TP
471.B kx-group-order-bits
472Length of the group order, in bits. This gives an approximate measure
473of the group strength.
474.TP
475.B kx-group-elt-bits
476Length of a group element, in bits. This may be useful when analyzing
477protocol traces.
478.TP
479.B hash
480The hash function in use, e.g.,
481.BR sha256 .
482.TP
483.B mgf
484The mask-generating function in use, e.g.,
485.BR whirlpool-mgf .
486.TP
487.B hashsz
488The size of the hash function's output, in octets.
489.TP
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490.B bulk-transform
491The name of the bulk-crypto transform.
492.TP
493.B bulk-overhead
494The amount of overhead, in bytes, caused by the crypto transform.
495.TP
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496.B cipher
497The name of the bulk data cipher in use, e.g.,
498.BR blowfish-cbc .
499.TP
500.B cipher-keysz
501The length of key used by the bulk data cipher, in octets.
502.TP
503.B cipher-blksz
504The block size of the bulk data cipher, or zero if it's not based on a
505block cipher.
506.TP
507.B cipher-data-limit
508The maximum amount of data to be encrypted using a single key. (A new
509key exchange is instigated well before the limit is reached, in order to
510allow for a seamless changeover of keys.)
511.TP
512.B mac
513The message authentication algorithm in use, e.g.,
494a7ac0 514.BR ripemd160-hmac .
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515.TP
516.B mac-keysz
517The length of the key used by the message authentication algorithm, in
518octets.
519.TP
520.B mac-tagsz
521The length of the message authentication tag, in octets.
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522.TP
523.B blkc
524The block cipher in use, e.g.,
525.BR blowfish .
526.TP
527.B blkc-keysz
528The length of key used by the block cipher, in octets.
529.TP
530.B blkc-blksz
531The block size of the block cipher.
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532.PP
533The various sizes are useful, for example, when computing the MTU for a
534tunnel interface. If
535.I MTU
536is the MTU of the path to the peer, then the tunnel MTU should be
537.IP
538.I MTU
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539\-
540.I header-length
541\- 9 \-
a93aacce 542.I bulk-overhead
449991a3 543.PP
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544allowing
545.I header-length
546= 20 (IPv4) or 40 (IPv6) bytes of IP header, 8 bytes of UDP header, a
547packet type octet, and the bulk-crypto transform overhead (which
548includes the sequence number).
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549.RE
550.SP
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551.BI "BGCANCEL " tag
552Cancels the background job with the named
553.IR tag .
554.SP
37941236 555.BI "CHECKCHAL " challenge
556Verifies a challenge as being one earlier issued by
557.B GETCHAL
558and not previously either passed to
559.B CHECKCHAL
560or in a greeting message.
13a55605 561.SP
3cdc3f3a 562.B "DAEMON"
563Causes the server to disassociate itself from its terminal and become a
c37b77e0 564background task. This only works once. A notification is issued.
2acd7cd6 565.SP
0ba8de86 566.BI "EPING \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
567Sends an encrypted ping to the peer, and expects an encrypted response.
568This checks that the peer is running (and not being impersonated), and
569that it can encrypt and decrypt packets correctly. Options and
570responses are the same as for the
571.B PING
572command.
13a55605 573.SP
de014da6 574.BI "FORCEKX " peer
575Requests the server to begin a new key exchange with
576.I peer
577immediately.
13a55605 578.SP
37941236 579.B "GETCHAL"
580Requests a challenge. The challenge is returned in an
581.B INFO
582line, as a base64-encoded string. See
583.BR CHECKCHAL .
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37941236 585.BI "GREET " peer " " challenge
586Sends a greeting packet containing the
587.I challenge
588(base-64 encoded) to the named
589.IR peer .
590The expectation is that this will cause the peer to recognize us and
591begin a key-exchange.
13a55605 592.SP
d6623498 593.B "HELP"
594Causes the server to emit an
595.B INFO
596line for each command it supports. Each line lists the command name,
597followed by the names of the arguments. This may be helpful as a memory
598aid for interactive use, or for program clients probing for features.
e04c2d50 599.SP
3cdc3f3a 600.BI "IFNAME " peer
601Emits an
602.B INFO
603line containing the name of the network interface used to collect IP
604packets which are to be encrypted and sent to
605.IR peer .
606Used by configuration scripts so that they can set up routing tables
607appropriately after adding new peers.
13a55605 608.SP
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609.B "JOBS"
610Emits an
611.B INFO
612line giving the tag for each outstanding background job.
613.SP
3cdc3f3a 614.BI "KILL " peer
615Causes the server to forget all about
616.IR peer .
617All keys are destroyed, and no more packets are sent. No notification
618is sent to the peer: if it's important that the peer be notified, you
619must think of a way to do that yourself.
13a55605 620.SP
3cdc3f3a 621.B "LIST"
622For each currently-known peer, an
623.B INFO
624line is written containing the peer's name, as given to
625.BR ADD .
13a55605 626.SP
bd58d532 627.BI "NOTIFY " tokens\fR...
e04c2d50 628Issues a
bd58d532 629.B USER
630notification to all interested administration clients.
13a55605 631.SP
060ca767 632.BI "PEERINFO " peer
633Returns information about a peer, in key-value form. The following keys
634are returned.
635.RS
636.TP
637.B tunnel
638The tunnel driver used for this peer.
639.TP
640.B keepalive
641The keepalive interval, in seconds, or zero if no keepalives are to be
642sent.
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644.B knock
645If present, the string sent to the peer to set up the association; see
646the
647.B \-knock
648option to
649.BR ADD ,
650and the
651.B KNOCK
652notification.
653.TP
48b84569 654.B key
fe2a5dcf 655The (short) key tag being used for the peer, as passed to the
48b84569 656.B ADD
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657command.
658.TP
659.B current-key
660The full key tag of the peer's public key currently being used. This
661may change during the life of the association.
662.TP
663.B private-key
664The private key tag being used for the peer, as passed to the
665.B ADD
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666command, or the
667.RB ` \-t '
668command-line option. If neither of these was given explicitly, the
669private key tag is shown as
670.RB ` (default) ',
671since there is no fixed tag used under these circumstances.
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672.TP
673.B current-private-key
674The full key tag of the private key currently being used for this
675association. This may change during the life of the association.
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676.TP
677.B corked
678Either
679.B t
680or
681.B nil
682depending on whether or not (respectively) key-exchange is waiting for
683the peer to initiate.
684.TP
685.B mobile
686Either
687.B t
688or
689.B nil
690depending on whether or not (respectively) the peer is expected to
691change its address unpredictably.
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693.B ephemeral
694Either
695.B t
696or
697.B nil
698depending on whether the association with the peer is expected to be
699temporary or persistent (respectively).
060ca767 700.RE
13a55605 701.SP
0ba8de86 702.BI "PING \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
703Send a transport-level ping to the peer. The ping and its response are
704not encrypted or authenticated. This command, possibly in conjunction
705with tracing, is useful for ensuring that UDP packets are actually
706flowing in both directions. See also the
707.B EPING
708command.
709.IP
710An
711.B INFO
712line is printed describing the outcome:
713.RS
714.TP
715.BI "ping-ok " millis
e04c2d50 716A response was received
0ba8de86 717.I millis
718after the ping was sent.
719.TP
720.BI "ping-timeout"
721No response was received within the time allowed.
722.TP
723.BI "ping-peer-died"
724The peer was killed (probably by another admin connection) before a
725response was received.
726.RE
727.IP
728Options recognized for this command are:
729.RS
13a55605 730.\"+opts
0ba8de86 731.TP
de014da6 732.BI "\-background " tag
733Run the command in the background, using the given
734.IR tag .
735.TP
0ba8de86 736.BI "\-timeout " time
737Wait for
738.I time
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739seconds before giving up on a response. The default is 5 seconds. The
740.I time
741is expressed as a nonnegative integer followed optionally by
742.BR d ,
743.BR h ,
744.BR m ,
745or
746.BR s
747for days, hours, minutes, or seconds respectively; if no suffix is
748given, seconds are assumed.
13a55605 749.\"-opts
0ba8de86 750.RE
13a55605 751.SP
3cdc3f3a 752.B "PORT"
5d06f63e 753.RI [ family ]
3cdc3f3a 754Emits an
755.B INFO
756line containing just the number of the UDP port used by the
757.B tripe
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758server, for the given address
759.I family
760(or one chosen arbitrarily if omitted -- though
761.B tripe
762tries to use the same port number consistently so this is not a likely
763problem in practice). If you've allowed your server to allocate a port
764dynamically, this is how to find out which one it chose.
13a55605 765.SP
de014da6 766.B "RELOAD"
767Instructs the server to recheck its keyring files. The server checks
768these periodically anyway but it may be necessary to force a recheck,
769for example after adding a new peer key.
13a55605 770.SP
3cdc3f3a 771.B "QUIT"
772Instructs the server to exit immediately. A warning is sent.
13a55605 773.SP
060ca767 774.B "SERVINFO"
775Returns information about the server, in the form of key-value pairs.
776The following keys are used.
777.RS
778.TP
779.B implementation
780A keyword naming the implementation of the
781.BR tripe (8)
782server. The current implementation is called
783.BR edgeware-tripe .
784.TP
785.B version
786The server's version number, as reported by
787.BR VERSION .
788.TP
789.B daemon
790Either
791.B t
792or
793.BR nil ,
794if the server has or hasn't (respectively) become a daemon.
795.RE
13a55605 796.SP
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797.BI "SETIFNAME " peer " " new-name
798Informs the server that the
799.IR peer 's
800tunnel-interface name has been changed to
801.IR new-name .
802This is useful if firewalling decisions are made based on interface
803names: a setup script for a particular peer can change the name, and
804then update the server's records so that they're accurate.
805.SP
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806.BI "STATS " peer
807Emits a number of
808.B INFO
809lines, each containing one or more statistics in the form
810.IB name = value \fR.
811The statistics-gathering is experimental and subject to change.
812.SP
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813.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
814Attempts to claim the named
815.IR service ,
816offering the given
817.IR version .
818The claim is successful if the service is currently unclaimed, or if
819a version earlier than
820.I version
821is provided; otherwise the command fails with the error
822.BR "service-exists" .
823.SP
824.BI "SVCENSURE " service " \fR[" version \fR]
e04c2d50 825Ensure that
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826.I service
827is provided, and (if specified) to at least the given
828.IR version .
829An error is reported if these conditions are not met; otherwise the
830command succeeds silently.
831.SP
832.BI "SVCFAIL " jobid " " tokens \fR...
833Send a
834.B FAIL
835(or
836.BR BGFAIL )
837response to the service job with the given
838.IR jobid ,
e04c2d50 839passing the
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840.I tokens
841as the reason for failure. The job is closed.
842.SP
843.BI "SVCINFO " jobid " " tokens \fR...
844Send an
845.B INFO
846(or
847.BR BGINFO )
848response to the service job with the given
849.IR jobid ,
850passing the
851.I tokens
852as the info message. The job remains open.
853.SP
854.B "SVCLIST"
855Output a line of the form
856.RS
857.IP
858.B INFO
859.I service
860.I version
861.PP
862for each service currently provided.
863.RE
864.SP
865.BI "SVCOK " jobid
866Send an
867.B OK
868(or
869.BR BGINFO )
870response to the service job with the given
871.IR jobid .
872The job is closed.
873.SP
874.BI "SVCQUERY " service
875Emits a number of
876.B info
877lines in key-value format, describing the named
878.IR service.
879The following keys are used.
880.RS
881.TP
882.B name
883The service's name.
884.TP
885.B version
886The service's version string.
887.RE
888.SP
889.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
890Announce that the client no longer wishes to provide the named
891.IR service .
892.SP
893.BI "SVCSUBMIT \fR[" options "\fR] " service " " command " " arguments \fR...
894Submit a job to the provider of the given
895.IR service ,
896passing it the named
897.I command
898and the given
899.IR arguments .
900The following options are accepted.
901.RS
902.\"+opts
903.TP
904.BI "\-background " tag
905Run the command in the background, using the given
906.IR tag .
907.TP
908.BI "\-version " version
909Ensure that at least the given
910.I version
911of the service is available before submitting the job.
912.RE
913.\"-opts
914.SP
d6623498 915.BR "TRACE " [\fIoptions\fP]
060ca767 916Selects trace outputs: see
e04c2d50 917.B "Trace lists"
060ca767 918above. Message types provided are:
d6623498 919.RS
2d752320 920.PP
d6623498 921Currently, the following tracing options are supported:
922.TP
923.B t
924Tunnel events: reception of packets to be encrypted, and injection of
925successfully-decrypted packets.
926.TP
927.B r
928Peer management events: creation and destruction of peer attachments,
929and arrival of messages.
930.TP
931.B a
932Administration interface: acceptance of new connections, and handling of
933the backgroud name-resolution required by the
934.B ADD
935command.
936.TP
d6623498 937.B s
938Handling of symmetric keysets: creation and expiry of keysets, and
939encryption and decryption of messages.
940.TP
941.B x
942Key exchange: reception, parsing and emission of key exchange messages.
943.TP
944.B m
945Key management: loading keys and checking for file modifications.
37941236 946.TP
947.B l
948Display information about challenge issuing and verification.
949.TP
950.B p
951Display contents of packets sent and received by the tunnel and/or peer
952modules.
953.TP
954.B c
955Display inputs, outputs and intermediate results of cryptographic
956operations. This includes plaintext and key material. Use with
957caution.
958.TP
959.B A
960All of the above.
d6623498 961.PP
962Note that the
963.B p
964(packet contents)
965and
966.B c
967(crypto details)
968outputs provide extra detail for other outputs. Specifying
969.B p
970without
37941236 971.BR r
d6623498 972or
973.B t
974isn't useful; neither is specifying
975.B c
976without one of
977.BR s ,
37941236 978.BR l ,
d6623498 979.B x
980or
981.BR m .
982.RE
13a55605 983.SP
060ca767 984.B "TUNNELS"
985For each available tunnel driver, an
986.B INFO
987line is printed giving its name.
13a55605 988.SP
060ca767 989.B "VERSION"
990Causes the server to emit an
991.B INFO
83487ded 992line stating its software version, as two tokens: the server name, and
060ca767 993its version string. The server name
994.B tripe
995is reserved to the Straylight/Edgeware implementation.
13a55605 996.SP
3cdc3f3a 997.BR "WATCH " [\fIoptions\fP]
bdc44f5b 998Enables or disables asynchronous broadcasts
3cdc3f3a 999.IR "for the current connection only" .
060ca767 1000See
e04c2d50 1001.B "Trace lists"
3cdc3f3a 1002above. The default watch state for the connection the server opens
1003automatically on stdin/stdout is to show warnings and trace messages;
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1004other connections show no asynchronous broadcast messages. (This is
1005done in order to guarantee that a program reading the server's stdout
1006does not miss any warnings.)
3cdc3f3a 1007.RS
1008.PP
060ca767 1009Message types provided are:
3cdc3f3a 1010.TP
1011.B t
1012.B TRACE
1013messages.
1014.TP
1015.B n
1016.B NOTE
1017messages.
1018.TP
1019.B w
1020.B WARN
1021messages.
1022.TP
37941236 1023.B A
3cdc3f3a 1024All of the above.
1025.RE
13a55605 1026.SP
bd58d532 1027.BI "WARN " tokens\fR...
e04c2d50 1028Issues a
bd58d532 1029.B USER
1030warning to all interested administration clients.
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1031.
1032.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
3cdc3f3a 1033.SH "ERROR MESSAGES"
fc916a09 1034.
13a55605 1035.\"* 20 Error messages (FAIL codes)
3cdc3f3a 1036The following
1037.B FAIL
de014da6 1038(or
1039.BR BGFAIL )
3cdc3f3a 1040messages are sent to clients as a result of errors during command
1041processing.
13a55605 1042.SP
3cdc3f3a 1043.BI "already-daemon"
1044(For
1045.BR DAEMON .)
1046The
1047.B tripe
1048server is already running as a daemon.
13a55605 1049.SP
f43df819 1050.BI "bad-addr-syntax " message
37941236 1051(For commands accepting socket addresses.) The address couldn't be
1052understood.
13a55605 1053.SP
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1054.BI "bad-base64 " message
1055(For commands accepting Base64-encoded input.) The Base64-encoded
1056string was invalid.
1057.SP
f43df819 1058.BI "bad-syntax " cmd " " message
3cdc3f3a 1059(For any command.) The command couldn't be understood: e.g., the number
1060of arguments was wrong.
13a55605 1061.SP
83487ded 1062.BI "bad-time-spec " token
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1063(For commands accepting a
1064.I time
1065argument.) The
83487ded 1066.I token
0ba8de86 1067is not a valid time interval specification. Acceptable time
e04c2d50 1068specifications are nonnegative integers followed optionally by
0ba8de86 1069.BR d ,
1070.BR h ,
1071.BR m ,
1072or
1073.BR s ,
1074for days, hours, minutes, or seconds, respectively.
13a55605 1075.SP
3cdc3f3a 1076.BI "bad-trace-option " char
1077(For
1078.BR TRACE .)
1079An unknown trace option was requested.
13a55605 1080.SP
3cdc3f3a 1081.BI "bad-watch-option " char
1082(For
1083.BR WATCH .)
1084An unknown watch option was requested.
13a55605 1085.SP
f43df819 1086.BI "daemon-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1087(For
1088.BR DAEMON .)
1089An error occurred during the attempt to become a daemon, as reported by
1090.IR message .
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1091See
1092.B WARNINGS
1093below for the meanings of
1094.I ecode
1095and
1096.IR message .
13a55605 1097.SP
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1098.BI "disabled-address-family " afam
1099(For
1100.B ADD
1101and
1102.BR PORT .)
1103The address family
1104.I afam
1105is supported, but was disabled using command-line arguments.
1106.SP
3cdc3f3a 1107.BI "invalid-port " number
1108(For
1109.BR ADD .)
1110The given port number is out of range.
13a55605 1111.SP
bdc44f5b 1112.BI "not-service-provider " service
e04c2d50 1113(For
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1114.BR SVCRELEASE .)
1115The invoking client is not the current provider of the named
1116.IR service ,
1117and is therefore not allowed to release it.
1118.SP
3cdc3f3a 1119.BI "peer-create-fail " peer
1120(For
1121.BR ADD .)
1122Adding
1123.I peer
1124failed for some reason. A warning should have been emitted explaining
1125why.
13a55605 1126.SP
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1127.BI "peer-addr-exists " address\fR...
1128(For
1129.BR ADD .)
1130There is already a peer with the given
1131.IR address .
1132.SP
3cdc3f3a 1133.BI "peer-exists " peer
1134(For
1135.BR ADD .)
1136There is already a peer named
d6623498 1137.IR peer .
13a55605 1138.SP
0ba8de86 1139.B "ping-send-failed"
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1140(For
1141.BR EPING .)
0ba8de86 1142The attempt to send a ping packet failed, probably due to lack of
1143encryption keys.
13a55605 1144.SP
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1145.B "provider-failed"
1146(For
1147.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1148The service provider disconnected without sending back a final reply to
1149the job.
1150.SP
1151.B "provider-overloaded"
1152(For
1153.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1154The service provider has too many jobs queued up for it already.
1155.SP
3cdc3f3a 1156.BI "resolve-error " hostname
1157(For
1158.BR ADD .)
1159The DNS name
1160.I hostname
1161could not be resolved.
13a55605 1162.SP
3cdc3f3a 1163.BI "resolver-timeout " hostname
1164(For
1165.BR ADD .)
1166The DNS name
1167.I hostname
1168took too long to resolve.
13a55605 1169.SP
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1170.BI "service-exists " service " " version
1171(For
1172.BR SVCCLAIM .)
1173Another client is already providing the stated
1174.I version
1175of the
1176.IR service .
1177.SP
1178.BI "service-too-old " service " " version
1179(For
1180.B SVCENSURE
1181and
1182.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1183Only the given
1184.I version
1185of the requested
1186.I service
1187is available, which does not meet the stated requirements.
1188.SP
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1189.BI "tag-exists " tag
1190(For long-running commands.) The named
1191.I tag
1192is already the tag of an outstanding job.
1193.SP
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1194.BI "unknown-address-family " afam
1195(For
1196.BR PORT .)
1197The address family
1198.I afam
1199is unrecognized.
1200.SP
3cdc3f3a 1201.BI "unknown-command " token
1202The command
9df937a3 1203.I token
78dcf842 1204was not recognized.
13a55605 1205.SP
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1206.BI "unknown-jobid " jobid
1207(For
1208.BR SVCOK ,
1209.BR SVCFAIL ,
1210and
1211.BR SVCINFO .)
1212The token
1213.I jobid
1214is not recognized as identifying an outstanding job. It may have just
1215been cancelled.
1216.SP
3cdc3f3a 1217.BI "unknown-peer " name
1218(For
1219.BR ADDR ,
1220.BR IFNAME ,
1221.BR KILL ,
64cf2223 1222.BR SETIFNAME ,
3cdc3f3a 1223and
1224.BR STATS .)
1225There is no peer called
1226.IR name .
13a55605 1227.SP
fd68efa9 1228.BI "unknown-port " port
3cdc3f3a 1229(For
1230.BR ADD .)
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1231The port name
1232.I port
e04c2d50 1233couldn't be found in
3cdc3f3a 1234.BR /etc/services .
dad7eebc 1235.SP
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1236.BI "unknown-service " service
1237(For
1238.BR SVCENSURE ,
1239.BR SVCQUERY ,
1240.BR SVCRELEASE ,
1241and
1242.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1243The token
1244.I service
1245is not recognized as the name of a client-provided service.
dad7eebc 1246.SP
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1247.BI "unknown-tag " tag
1248(For
1249.BR BGCANCEL .)
1250The given
1251.I tag
1252is not the tag for any outstanding background job. It may have just
1253finished.
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1254.SP
1255.BI "unknown-tunnel " tun
1256(For
1257.BR ADD .)
1258The given
1259.I tun
1260is not the name of any known tunnel driver.
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1262.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
3cdc3f3a 1263.SH "NOTIFICATIONS"
fc916a09 1264.
13a55605 1265.\"* 30 Notification broadcasts (NOTE codes)
3cdc3f3a 1266The following notifications are sent to clients who request them.
13a55605 1267.SP
42da2a58 1268.BI "ADD " peer " " ifname " " address \fR...
3cdc3f3a 1269A new peer has been added. The peer's name is
42da2a58 1270.IR peer ,
1271its tunnel is network interface
1272.IR ifname ,
3cdc3f3a 1273and its network address is
1274.IR address .
13a55605 1275.SP
3cdc3f3a 1276.BI "DAEMON"
1277The server has forked off into the sunset and become a daemon.
13a55605 1278.SP
37941236 1279.BI "GREET " challenge " " address \fR...
1280A valid greeting was received, with the given challenge (exactly as it
1281was returned by
1282.B GETCHAL
1283earlier).
13a55605 1284.SP
d6623498 1285.BI "KILL " peer
3cdc3f3a 1286The peer
1287.I peer
1288has been killed.
13a55605 1289.SP
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1290.BI "KNOCK " peer " " address
1291The currently unknown
1292.I peer
1293is attempting to connect from
1294.IR address .
1295.SP
3cdc3f3a 1296.BI "KXDONE " peer
1297Key exchange with
1298.I peer
1299finished successfully.
13a55605 1300.SP
3cdc3f3a 1301.BI "KXSTART " peer
1302Key exchange with
1303.I peer
1304has begun or restarted. If key exchange keeps failing, this message
1305will be repeated periodically.
13a55605 1306.SP
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1307.BI "NEWADDR " peer " " address
1308The given mobile
1309.IR peer 's
1310IP address has been changed to
1311.IR address .
1312.SP
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1313.BI "NEWIFNAME " peer " " old-name " " new-name
1314The given
1315.IR peer 's
1316tunnel interface name has been changed from
1317.I old-name
1318to
1319.IR new-name ,
1320as a result of a
1321.B SETIFNAME
1322command.
1323.SP
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1324.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
1325The named
1326.I service
1327is now available, at the stated
1328.IR version .
1329.SP
1330.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
1331The named
1332.I service
1333is no longer available.
1334.SP
bd58d532 1335.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1336An administration client issued a notification using the
1337.B NOTIFY
1338command.
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1340.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
3cdc3f3a 1341.SH "WARNINGS"
fc916a09 1342.
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1343.\"* 40 Warning broadcasts (WARN codes)
1344.\"+sep
3cdc3f3a 1345There are many possible warnings. They are categorized according to
1346their first tokens.
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1347.PP
1348Many of these warnings report system errors. These are reported as a
1349pair of tokens, described below as
1350.I ecode
1351and
1352.IR message .
1353The
1354.I ecode
1355is a string of the form
1356.BI E number
1357giving the
1358.BR errno (3)
1359value of the error; the
1360.I message
1361is the `human-readable' form of the message, as reported by
1362.BR strerror (3).
3cdc3f3a 1363.SS "ABORT warnings"
1364These all indicate that the
d6623498 1365.B tripe
3cdc3f3a 1366server has become unable to continue. If enabled, the server will dump
1367core in its configuration directory.
13a55605 1368.SP
3cdc3f3a 1369.BI "ABORT repeated-select-errors"
1370The main event loop is repeatedly failing. If the server doesn't quit,
1371it will probably waste all available CPU doing nothing.
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1372.SP
1373.BI "ABORT hash-size-too-large hash " name " size " sz " limit " max
1374An internal inconsistency: the hash function
1375.I name
1376produces a
1377.IR sz -byte
1378hash, but the server has been compiled to assume that no hash function
1379returns more than
1380.I max
1381bytes.
3cdc3f3a 1382.SS "ADMIN warnings"
1383These indicate a problem with the administration socket interface.
13a55605 1384.SP
f43df819 1385.BI "ADMIN accept-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1386There was an error while attempting to accept a connection from a new
1387client.
13a55605 1388.SP
f43df819 1389.BI "ADMIN client-write-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1390There was an error sending data to a client. The connection to the
1391client has been closed.
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1392.SP
1393.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " already-in-use"
1394The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1395filesystem, because there's already a socket there, and some other
1396process is actively listening for incoming connections.
1397.SP
1398.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " bind-failed " ecode " " message
1399The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1400filesystem for an unusual reason. (The usual reason is
1401.BR EADDRINUSE ,
1402but this is handled specially.)
1403.SP
1404.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " chmod-failed " ecode " " message
1405The server failed to set the correct permissions of the Unix-domain
1406socket object.
1407.SP
1408.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " chown-failed " ecode " " message
1409The server failed to set the correct ownership of the Unix-domain socket
1410object.
1411.SP
1412.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " create-failed " ecode " " message
1413The server failed to create its administration socket. This is usually
1414because some system resource is unavailable.
1415.SP
1416.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " listen-failed " ecode " " message
1417The server failed to arrange to receive incoming connections on its
1418Unix-domain socket.
1419.SP
1420.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " name-too-long"
1421The server can't create its administration socket, because the chosen
1422pathname
1423.I path
1424is too long. There is, for historical reasons, a rather tight limit on
1425the length of name permitted for Unix-domain sockets, usually around 108
1426bytes.
1427.SP
1428.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " stat-failed " ecode " " message
1429The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1430filesystem, because there's already something there, but the server
1431couldn't discover what.
1432.SP
1433.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " too-many-retries"
1434The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1435filesystem. This error indicates that another process is also
1436repeatedly trying to create a Unix-domain socket at the same
1437.IR path ,
1438and then failing to actually listen for connections on it, but the
1439server always loses the applicable race for some reason. This situation
1440merits investigation.
1441.SP
1442.BI "ADMIN adns-init-failed " ecode " " message
1443The server failed to initialize the ADNS asynchronous DNS-resolution
1444library.
37941236 1445.SS "CHAL warnings"
1446These indicate errors in challenges, either in the
1447.B CHECKCHAL
1448command or in greeting packets.
13a55605 1449.SP
37941236 1450.B "CHAL impossible-challenge"
1451The server hasn't issued any challenges yet. Quite how anyone else
6e66e050 1452thought they could make one up is hard to imagine.
13a55605 1453.SP
37941236 1454.B "CHAL incorrect-tag"
1455Challenge received contained the wrong authentication data. It might be
1456very stale, or a forgery.
13a55605 1457.SP
37941236 1458.B "CHAL invalid-challenge"
1459Challenge received was the wrong length. We might have changed MAC
1460algorithms since the challenge was issued, or it might just be rubbish.
13a55605 1461.SP
37941236 1462.B "CHAL replay duplicated-sequence"
1463Challenge received was a definite replay of an old challenge. Someone's
1464up to something!
13a55605 1465.SP
37941236 1466.B "CHAL replay old-sequence"
1467Challenge received was old, but maybe not actually a replay. Try again.
3cdc3f3a 1468.SS "KEYMGMT warnings"
1469These indicate a problem with the keyring files, or the keys stored in
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1470them. The first token is either
1471.B private-keyring
1472or
1473.B public-keyring
1474(notated
1475.IB which -keyring
1476in the descriptions below) indicating which keyring file is problematic,
1477and the second token is the filename of the keyring. Frequently a key
1478tag may be given next, preceded by the token
1479.BR key .
1480.SP
1481.BI "KEYMGMT public-keyring " file " key " tag " algorithm-mismatch"
1482A peer's public key doesn't request the same algorithms as our private
1483key.
1484.SP
1485.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " bad-tag-length " len
1486The key attributes specify the length of MAC tag as
1487.I len
1488but this is an invalid value \(en either too large or not a multiple of
1489eight.
1490.SP
1491.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " bad-tag-length-string " str
1492The key attributes contain
1493.I str
1494where a MAC tag length was expected. The key was generated wrongly.
1495.SP
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1496.BI "KEYMGMT private-keyring " file " key " tag " incorrect-public-key"
1497The private key doesn't record the correct corresponding public key.
1498.SP
1499.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " io-error " ecode " " message
1500A system error occurred while opening or reading the keyring file.
1501.SP
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1502.BI "KEYMGMT private-keyring " file " key " tag " changed-group"
1503The private keyring has been changed, but the new private key can't be
1504used because it uses a different group for Diffie\(enHellman key
1505exchange.
1506.SP
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1507.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " no-hmac-for-hash " hash
1508No message authentication code was given explicitly, and there's no
1509implementation of HMAC for the selected hash function
1510.IR hash .
4d36660a 1511.SP
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1512.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-bulk-transform " bulk
1513The key specifies the use of an unknown bulk-crypto transform
1514.IR bulk .
1515Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1516installed is too old.
1517.SP
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1518.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-cipher " cipher
1519The key specifies the use of an unknown symmetric encryption algorithm
1520.IR cipher .
1521Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of
1522Catacomb installed is too old.
1523.SP
1524.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-group-type " type
1525The key specifies the use of a Diffie\(enHellman group of an unknown
1526.IR type .
1527Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of
1528.BR tripe (8)
1529is too old.
1530.SP
1531.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-hash " hash
1532The key specifies the use of an unknown hash function
1533.IR hash .
1534Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1535installed is too old.
1536.SP
1537.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-mac " mac
1538The key specifies the use of an unknown message authentication code
1539.IR mac .
1540Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1541installed is too old.
1542.SP
1543.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-mgf-cipher " mgf
1544The key specifies the use of an unknown symmetric encryption function
1545.I mgf
1546for mask generation. Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the
1547version of Catacomb installed is too old.
1548.SP
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1549.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-serialization-format " ser
1550The key specifies the use of an unknown serialization format
1551.I ser
1552for hashing group elements. Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or
1553maybe the version of Catacomb installed is too old.
1554.SP
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1555.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "no-aad"
1556The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1557.I cipher
1558which does not support the processing of additional authenticated data.
1559The most prominent examples of such schemes are the
1560.IB cipher -naclbox
1561collection, where
1562.I cipher
1563is
1564.BR salsa20 ,
1565.BR salsa20/12 ,
1566.BR salsa20/8 ,
1567.BR chacha20 ,
1568.BR chacha12 ,
1569or
1570.BR chacha8 ;
1571use the
1572.B naclbox
1573bulk transform rather than
1574.B aead
1575for these
1576(or switch to the IETF
1577.IB cipher -poly1305
1578schemes instead).
1579.SP
1580.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonce-too-small"
1581The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1582.I cipher
1583which doesn't even allow a 5-byte (40-bit) nonce. Catacomb doesn't
1584implement any such limited AE schemes: you must be doing something
1585strange.
1586.SP
1587.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonce-too-large"
1588The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1589.I cipher
1590which doesn't support any nonce size smaller than 64 bytes (512 bits).
1591Catacomb doesn't implement any such extravagant AE schemes: you must be
1592doing something strange.
1593.SP
1594.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonempty-ciphertext-for-empty-message"
1595The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1596.I cipher
1597which produces ciphertext output even when given a completely empty
1598message. Catacomb doesn't implement any such unhelpful AE schemes: you
1599must be doing something strange.
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1600.SP
1601.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " " alg " " name " no-key-size " hashsz
1602The
1603.I alg
1604token is either
1605.B cipher
1606or
1607.BR mac .
1608The named algorithm requires more key material than the hash function
1609can provide. You must change either the hash function, or the cipher or
1610MAC.
13a55605 1611.SP
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1612.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " mgf " mgf " restrictive-key-schedule"
1613The cipher selected for mask-generation is unsuitable because it can't
1614accept arbitrary-sized keys.
13a55605 1615.SP
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1616.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key-not-found " tag
1617A key named
3cdc3f3a 1618.I tag
4d36660a 1619couldn't be found in the keyring.
13a55605 1620.SP
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1621.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " unknown-key-id 0x" keyid
1622A key with the given
1623.I keyid
1624(in hex) was requested but not found.
1625.SP
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1626.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " line " line " " message
1627The contents of the keyring file are invalid. There may well be a bug
1628in the
1629.BR key (1)
1630program.
3cdc3f3a 1631.SS "KX warnings"
1632These indicate problems during key-exchange. Many indicate either a bug
1633in the server (either yours or the remote one), or some kind of attack
1634in progress. All name a
1635.I peer
1636as the second token: this is the peer the packet is apparently from,
1637though it may have been sent by an attacker instead.
1638.PP
1639In the descriptions below,
1640.I msgtoken
1641is one of the tokens
1642.BR pre-challenge ,
1643.BR cookie ,
1644.BR challenge ,
1645.BR reply ,
1646.BR switch-rq ,
3cdc3f3a 1647.BR switch-ok .
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1648.BR token-rq ,
1649.BR token ,
1650or
1651.BR knock .
13a55605 1652.SP
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1653.BI "KX " peer " algorithms-mismatch local-private-key " privtag " peer-public-key " pubtag
1654The algorithms specified in the peer's public key
1655.I pubtag
1656don't match the ones described in the private key
1657.IR privtag .
1658.SP
3cdc3f3a 1659.BI "KX " peer " bad-expected-reply-log"
1660The challenges
1661.B tripe
1662uses in its protocol contain a check value which proves that the
1663challenge is honest. This message indicates that the check value
1664supplied is wrong: someone is attempting to use bogus challenges to
1665persuade your
1666.B tripe
1667server to leak private key information. No chance!
13a55605 1668.SP
bd58d532 1669.BI "KX " peer " decrypt-failed reply\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
3cdc3f3a 1670A symmetrically-encrypted portion of a key-exchange message failed to
1671decrypt.
13a55605 1672.SP
3cdc3f3a 1673.BI "KX " peer " invalid " msgtoken
1674A key-exchange message was malformed. This almost certainly indicates a
1675bug somewhere.
13a55605 1676.SP
bd58d532 1677.BI "KX " peer " incorrect cookie\fR|\fBswitch-rq\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
3cdc3f3a 1678A message didn't contain the right magic data. This may be a replay of
1679some old exchange, or random packets being sent in an attempt to waste
1680CPU.
13a55605 1681.SP
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1682.BI "KX " peer " " which "-key-expired"
1683The local private key or the peer's public key (distinguished by
1684.IR which )
1685has expired. Either you or the peer's maintainer should have arranged
1686for a replacement before now.
13a55605 1687.SP
3cdc3f3a 1688.BI "KX " peer " sending-cookie"
1689We've received too many bogus pre-challenge messages. Someone is trying
1690to flood us with key-exchange messages and make us waste CPU on doing
1691hard asymmetric crypto sums.
13a55605 1692.SP
3cdc3f3a 1693.BI "KX " peer " unexpected " msgtoken
1694The message received wasn't appropriate for this stage of the key
1695exchange process. This may mean that one of our previous packets got
e04c2d50 1696lost. For
3cdc3f3a 1697.BR pre-challenge ,
1698it may simply mean that the peer has recently restarted.
13a55605 1699.SP
3cdc3f3a 1700.BI "KX " peer " unknown-challenge"
1701The peer is asking for an answer to a challenge which we don't know
1702about. This may mean that we've been inundated with challenges from
1703some malicious source
1704.I who can read our messages
1705and discarded the valid one.
13a55605 1706.SP
3cdc3f3a 1707.BI "KX " peer " unknown-message 0x" nn
1708An unknown key-exchange message arrived.
1709.SS "PEER warnings"
1710These are largely concerned with management of peers and the low-level
83487ded 1711details of the network protocol. The second token is usually the name of
e04c2d50 1712a peer, or
3cdc3f3a 1713.RB ` \- '
1714if none is relevant.
13a55605 1715.SP
3cdc3f3a 1716.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet no-type"
1717An empty packet arrived. This is very strange.
13a55605 1718.SP
3cdc3f3a 1719.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-category 0x" nn
1720The message category
1721.I nn
1722(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1723somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
13a55605 1724.SP
3cdc3f3a 1725.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-type 0x" nn
1726The message type
1727.I nn
1728(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1729somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
13a55605 1730.SP
0ba8de86 1731.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-encrypted-ping"
1732The peer sent a ping response which matches an outstanding ping, but its
1733payload is wrong. There's definitely a bug somewhere.
13a55605 1734.SP
0ba8de86 1735.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-transport-ping"
1736The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which matches an outstanding
1737ping, but its payload is wrong. Either there's a bug, or the bad guys
1738are playing tricks on you.
13a55605 1739.SP
3cdc3f3a 1740.BI "PEER " peer " decrypt-failed"
1741An encrypted IP packet failed to decrypt. It may have been mangled in
1742transit, or may be a very old packet from an expired previous session
1743key. There is usually a considerable overlap in the validity periods of
1744successive session keys, so this shouldn't occur unless the key exchange
1745takes ages or fails.
13a55605 1746.SP
0ba8de86 1747.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-encrypted-ping"
1748The peer sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid. There's
1749definitely a bug somewhere.
13a55605 1750.SP
0ba8de86 1751.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-transport-ping"
1752The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid.
1753Either there's a bug, or the bad guys are playing tricks on you.
13a55605 1754.SP
3cdc3f3a 1755.BI "PEER " peer " packet-build-failed"
1756There wasn't enough space in our buffer to put the packet we wanted to
1757send. Shouldn't happen.
13a55605 1758.SP
f43df819 1759.BI "PEER \- socket-read-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1760An error occurred trying to read an incoming packet.
13a55605 1761.SP
f43df819 1762.BI "PEER " peer " socket-write-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1763An error occurred attempting to send a network packet. We lost that
1764one.
13a55605 1765.SP
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1766.BI "PEER " address\fR... " disabled-address-family"
1767An attempt was made to send a packet to an address for which support was
1768switched off by command-line options.
1769.SP
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1770.BI "PEER " address\fR... " socket-write-error " ecode " " message
1771An error occurred attempting to send a network packet. We lost that
1772one.
1773.SP
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1774.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " bind-failed " ecode " " message
1775The server failed to associate a UDP socket with a local address.
1776.SP
1777.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " create-failed " ecode " " message
1778The server failed to create a UDP socket for the
1779.IR address-family .
1780.SP
1781.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " read-local-address-failed " ecode " " message
1782The server failed to discover the local address for one of its own UDP
1783sockets.
1784.SP
1785.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " set-buffers-failed " ecode " " message
1786The server failed to configure appropriate buffer sizes on a UDP socket.
1787.SP
1788.BI "PEER \- udp-socket INET6 set-v6only-failed " ecode " " message
1789The server failed to configure an IPv6 socket not to try to collect IPv4
1790traffic too.
1791.SP
0ba8de86 1792.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-encrypted-ping 0x" id
1793The peer sent an encrypted ping response whose id doesn't match any
1794outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the server was
1795willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad.
13a55605 1796.SP
0ba8de86 1797.BI "PEER \- unexpected-source " address\fR...
1798A packet arrived from
1799.I address
1800(a network address \(en see above), but no peer is known at that
1801address. This may indicate a misconfiguration, or simply be a result of
1802one end of a connection being set up before the other.
13a55605 1803.SP
0ba8de86 1804.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-transport-ping 0x" id
1805The peer (apparently) sent a transport ping response whose id doesn't
1806match any outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the
1807server was willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad; or maybe
1808there are bad people trying to confuse you.
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1809.SS "PRIVSEP warnings"
1810These indicate problems with the privilege-separation helper process.
1811(The server tries to drop its privileges when it starts up, leaving a
1812privileged helper process behind which will create and hand over tunnel
1813descriptors on request, but hopefully not do anything else especially
1814dangerous. Tunnel descriptors are not completely safe, but this is
1815probably better than nothing.)
1816.SP
1817.BI "PRIVSEP child-exited " rc
1818The helper process exited normally with status
1819.IR rc .
1820Status 0 means that it thought the server didn't want it any more; 1
1821means that it was invoked incorrectly; 127 means that some system call
1822failed.
1823.SP
1824.BI "PRIVSEP child-killed " sig
1825The helper process was killed by signal number
1826.IR sig .
1827.SP
1828.BI "PRIVSEP child-died " status
1829The helper process died in some unexpected way;
1830.I status is the raw status code returned by
1831.BR waitpid (2),
1832because the server didn't understand how to decode it.
1833.SP
1834.BI "PRIVSEP helper-died"
1835A tunnel driver requires a tunnel descriptor from the helper, but the
1836helper isn't running so this won't work.
1837.SP
1838.BI "PRIVSEP helper-read-error " ecode " " message
1839The server failed to read a response from the helper process.
1840.SP
1841.BI "PRIVSEP helper-short-read"
1842The helper process didn't send back enough data, and has likely crashed.
1843.SP
1844.BI "PRIVSEP helper-write-error " ecode " " message
1845The server failed to send a message to the helper process.
1846.SP
1847.BI "PRIVSEP no-fd-from-helper"
1848The helper process sent back a positive response, but didn't include the
1849requested tunnel descriptor.
1850.SP
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1851.BI "PRIVSEP socketpair-create-failed " ecode " " message
1852The server couldn't create the socketpair it's supposed to use to
1853communicate with the helper process.
1854.SP
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1855.BI "PRIVSEP unknown-response-code"
1856The helper process sent back an incomprehensible reply. It's probably
1857very confused and may crash.
3cdc3f3a 1858.SS "SERVER warnings"
1859These indicate problems concerning the server process as a whole.
13a55605 1860.SP
3cdc3f3a 1861.BI "SERVER ignore signal " name
1862A signal arrived, but the server ignored it. Currently this happens for
1863.B SIGHUP
1864because that's a popular way of telling daemons to re-read their
1865configuration files. Since
1866.B tripe
1867re-reads its keyrings automatically and has no other configuration
1868files, it's not relevant, but it seemed better to ignore the signal than
1869let the server die.
13a55605 1870.SP
3cdc3f3a 1871.BI "SERVER quit signal " \fR[\fInn\fR|\fIname\fR]
1872A signal arrived and
1873.B tripe
1874is going to quit.
13a55605 1875.SP
3cdc3f3a 1876.BI "SERVER quit admin-request"
1877A client of the administration interface issued a
1878.B QUIT
1879command.
13a55605 1880.SP
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1881.BI "SERVER daemon-error " ecode " " message
1882The server failed to become a daemon during initialization.
1883.SP
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1884.BI "SERVER quit foreground-eof"
1885The server is running in foreground mode (the
1886.B \-F
1887option), and encountered end-of-file on standard input.
1888.SP
f43df819 1889.BI "SERVER select-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1890An error occurred in the server's main event loop. This is bad: if it
1891happens too many times, the server will abort.
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1892.SP
1893.BI "SERVER waitpid-error " ecode " " message
1894The server was informed that one of its child processes had exited, but
1895couldn't retrieve the child's status.
3cdc3f3a 1896.SS "SYMM warnings"
1897These are concerned with the symmetric encryption and decryption
1898process.
13a55605 1899.SP
3cdc3f3a 1900.BI "SYMM replay old-sequence"
1901A packet was received with an old sequence number. It may just have
1902been delayed or duplicated, or it may have been an attempt at a replay
1903attack.
13a55605 1904.SP
3cdc3f3a 1905.BI "SYMM replay duplicated-sequence"
1906A packet was received with a sequence number we've definitely seen
1907before. It may be an accidental duplication because the 'net is like
1908that, or a deliberate attempt at a replay.
1909.SS "TUN warnings"
1910These concern the workings of the system-specific tunnel driver. The
83487ded 1911second token is the name of the tunnel interface in question, or
3cdc3f3a 1912.RB ` \- '
1913if none.
13a55605 1914.SP
3cdc3f3a 1915.BI "TUN \- bsd no-tunnel-devices"
1916The driver couldn't find an available tunnel device. Maybe if you
e04c2d50 1917create some more
3cdc3f3a 1918.BI /dev/tun nn
1919files, it will work.
13a55605 1920.SP
72917fe7 1921.BI "TUN \- " tun-name " open-error " device " " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1922An attempt to open the tunnel device file
1923.I device
1924failed.
13a55605 1925.SP
f43df819 1926.BI "TUN \- linux config-error " ecode " " message
3cdc3f3a 1927Configuring the Linux TUN/TAP interface failed.
13a55605 1928.SP
f43df819 1929.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " read-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1930Reading from the tunnel device failed.
13a55605 1931.SP
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1932.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " write-error " ecode " " message
1933Writing from the tunnel device failed.
1934.SP
42da2a58 1935.BI "TUN " ifname " slip bad-escape"
1936The SLIP driver encountered a escaped byte it wasn't expecting to see.
1937The erroneous packet will be ignored.
13a55605 1938.SP
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1939.BI "TUN \- slip bad-interface-list"
1940The interface list, in the
1941.B TRIPE_SLIPIF
1942environment variable, is malformed.
1943.SP
b9066fbb 1944.BI "TUN " ifname " slip eof"
1945The SLIP driver encountered end-of-file on its input descriptor.
1946Pending data is discarded, and no attempt is made to read any more data
1947from that interface ever.
13a55605 1948.SP
b9066fbb 1949.BI "TUN " ifname " slip escape-end"
1950The SLIP driver encountered an escaped `end' marker. This probably
1951means that someone's been sending it junk. The erroneous packet is
1952discarded, and we hope that we've rediscovered synchronization.
13a55605 1953.SP
f43df819 1954.BI "TUN \- slip fork-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1955The SLIP driver encountered an error forking a child process while
1956allocating a new dynamic interface.
13a55605 1957.SP
42da2a58 1958.BI "TUN \- slip no-slip-interfaces"
1959The driver ran out of static SLIP interfaces. Either preallocate more,
1960or use dynamic SLIP interface allocation.
13a55605 1961.SP
b9066fbb 1962.BI "TUN " ifname " slip overflow"
1963The SLIP driver gave up reading a packet because it got too large.
13a55605 1964.SP
f43df819 1965.BI "TUN \- slip pipe-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1966The SLIP driver encountered an error creating pipes while allocating a
1967new dynamic interface.
13a55605 1968.SP
f43df819 1969.BI "TUN \- slip read-ifname-failed " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1970The SLIP driver encountered an error reading the name of a dynamically
1971allocated interface. Maybe the allocation script is broken.
13a55605 1972.SP
f43df819 1973.BI "TUN \- unet config-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1974Configuring the Linux Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete and
1975shouldn't be used any more.
13a55605 1976.SP
f43df819 1977.BI "TUN \- unet getinfo-error " ecode " " message
42da2a58 1978Reading information about the Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete
1979and shouldn't be used any more.
bd58d532 1980.SS "USER warnings"
1981These are issued by administration clients using the
1982.B WARN
1983command.
13a55605 1984.SP
bd58d532 1985.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1986An administration client issued a warning.
13a55605 1987.\"-sep
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1989.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
13a55605 1990.SH "SUMMARY"
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1992.SS "Command responses"
1993.nf
2acd7cd6 1994.BI "BGDETACH " tag
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1995.BI "BGFAIL " tag " " tokens \fR...
1996.BI "BGINFO " tag " " tokens \fR...
1997.BI "BGOK " tag
1998.BI "FAIL " tokens \fR...
1999.BI "INFO " tokens \fR...
2000.B OK
2001.fi
2002.\"= summary
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d6623498 2005.SH "SEE ALSO"
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d6623498 2007.BR tripectl (1),
2008.BR tripe (8).
2009.PP
3cdc3f3a 2010.IR "The Trivial IP Encryption Protocol" .
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d6623498 2013.SH "AUTHOR"
fc916a09 2014.
d36eda2a 2015Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
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