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1.\" -*-nroff-*-
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3.\" Manual for the administration protocol
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25.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
26.so ../common/defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@
27.
28.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
29.TH tripe-admin 5tripe "18 February 2001" "Straylight/Edgeware" "TrIPE: Trivial IP Encryption"
30.
31.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
32.SH "NAME"
33.
34tripe-admin \- administrator commands for TrIPE
35.
36.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
37.SH "DESCRIPTION"
38.
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
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.
54.SS "General structure"
55Each command or response line consists of a sequence of
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
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.
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.
78.SS "Simple commands"
79For simple client command, the server responds with zero or more
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
91code is followed by a machine-readable explanation of why the command
92failed.
93.PP
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
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.
111.PP
112The
113.B WARN
114message contains a machine-readable message warning of an error
115encountered while processing a command, unexpected or unusual behaviour
116by a peer, or a possible attack by an adversary. Under normal
117conditions, the server shouldn't emit any warnings.
118.PP
119The
120.B TRACE
121message contains a human-readable tracing message containing diagnostic
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
128version.
129.PP
130Finally, the
131.B NOTE
132message is a machine-readable notification about some routine but
133interesting event such as creation or destruction of peers.
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
160one of the tokens
161.BR BGOK ,
162.BR BGFAIL ,
163or
164.BR BGINFO ,
165followed by the command tag. These correspond to the
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
181or
182.B INFO
183response: it will always detach and then issue any
184.B BGINFO
185lines followed by
186.B BGOK
187response.
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
216.IR service .
217The recipient is no longer the provider of this service.
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.)
247.SS "Network addresses"
248A network address is a sequence of tokens. The first is a token
249identifying the network address family. The length of an address and
250the meanings of the subsequent tokens depend on the address family.
251Address family tokens are not case-sensitive on input; on output, they
252are always in upper-case.
253.PP
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.
269.TP
270.BI "INET " address " \fR[" port \fR]
271An Internet socket, naming an IPv4 address and UDP port. On output, the
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.
278.TP
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.
288.PP
289If, on input, no recognized address family token is found, the following
290tokens are assumed to represent an
291.B ANY
292address. Addresses output by the server always have an address family
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.
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
305pairs, one per token. Neither the
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
328.RB ` + '
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.
335.
336.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
337.SH "COMMAND REFERENCE"
338.
339.\"* 10 Commands
340The commands provided are:
341.SP
342.BI "ADD \fR[" options "\fR] " peer " " address "\fR..."
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
352be contacted. The following options are recognized.
353.RS
354.\"+opts
355.TP
356.BI "\-background " tag
357Run the command in the background, using the given
358.IR tag .
359.TP
360.B "\-cork"
361Don't send an immediate challenge to the peer; instead, wait until it
362sends us something before responding.
363.TP
364.B "\-ephemeral"
365The association with the peer is not intended to persist indefinitely.
366When a peer is killed, or the
367.BR tripe (8)
368daemon is shut down, a
369.B bye
370packet is to the peer(s). If a peer marked as ephemeral sends us a
371.B bye
372packet then it is killed (but in this case no further
373.B bye
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.
378.TP
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
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
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
417key by this point. Prior to version 1.6.0, this option used to imply
418.BR \-ephemeral .
419.TP
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
428notification. Prior to version 1.6.0, this option used to imply
429.BR \-ephemeral .
430.TP
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
444.BI "\-tunnel " tunnel
445Use the named tunnel driver, rather than the default.
446.\"-opts
447.RE
448.SP
449.BI "ADDR " peer
450Emits an
451.B INFO
452line reporting the IP address and port number stored for
453.IR peer .
454.SP
455.BI "ALGS \fR[" peer \fR]
456Emits information about the cryptographic algorithms in use, in
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.
461.RS
462.PP
463The keys are as follows.
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
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
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.,
514.BR ripemd160-hmac .
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.
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.
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
539\-
540.I header-length
541\- 9 \-
542.I bulk-overhead
543.PP
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).
549.RE
550.SP
551.BI "BGCANCEL " tag
552Cancels the background job with the named
553.IR tag .
554.SP
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.
561.SP
562.B "DAEMON"
563Causes the server to disassociate itself from its terminal and become a
564background task. This only works once. A notification is issued.
565.SP
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.
573.SP
574.BI "FORCEKX " peer
575Requests the server to begin a new key exchange with
576.I peer
577immediately.
578.SP
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 .
584.SP
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.
592.SP
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.
599.SP
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.
608.SP
609.B "JOBS"
610Emits an
611.B INFO
612line giving the tag for each outstanding background job.
613.SP
614.BI "KILL " peer
615Causes the server to forget all about
616.IR peer .
617All keys are destroyed, and no more packets are sent. A
618.B bye
619message is sent to the peer if it's marked as
620.B "\-ephemeral"
621\(en see the
622.B "ADD"
623command.
624.SP
625.B "LIST"
626For each currently-known peer, an
627.B INFO
628line is written containing the peer's name, as given to
629.BR ADD .
630.SP
631.BI "NOTIFY " tokens\fR...
632Issues a
633.B USER
634notification to all interested administration clients.
635.SP
636.BI "PEERINFO " peer
637Returns information about a peer, in key-value form. The following keys
638are returned.
639.RS
640.TP
641.B tunnel
642The tunnel driver used for this peer.
643.TP
644.B keepalive
645The keepalive interval, in seconds, or zero if no keepalives are to be
646sent.
647.TP
648.B knock
649If present, the string sent to the peer to set up the association; see
650the
651.B \-knock
652option to
653.BR ADD ,
654and the
655.B KNOCK
656notification.
657.TP
658.B key
659The (short) key tag being used for the peer, as passed to the
660.B ADD
661command.
662.TP
663.B current-key
664The full key tag of the peer's public key currently being used. This
665may change during the life of the association.
666.TP
667.B private-key
668The private key tag being used for the peer, as passed to the
669.B ADD
670command, or the
671.RB ` \-t '
672command-line option. If neither of these was given explicitly, the
673private key tag is shown as
674.RB ` (default) ',
675since there is no fixed tag used under these circumstances.
676.TP
677.B current-private-key
678The full key tag of the private key currently being used for this
679association. This may change during the life of the association.
680.TP
681.B corked
682Either
683.B t
684or
685.B nil
686depending on whether or not (respectively) key-exchange is waiting for
687the peer to initiate.
688.TP
689.B mobile
690Either
691.B t
692or
693.B nil
694depending on whether or not (respectively) the peer is expected to
695change its address unpredictably.
696.TP
697.B ephemeral
698Either
699.B t
700or
701.B nil
702depending on whether the association with the peer is expected to be
703temporary or persistent (respectively).
704.RE
705.SP
706.BI "PING \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
707Send a transport-level ping to the peer. The ping and its response are
708not encrypted or authenticated. This command, possibly in conjunction
709with tracing, is useful for ensuring that UDP packets are actually
710flowing in both directions. See also the
711.B EPING
712command.
713.IP
714An
715.B INFO
716line is printed describing the outcome:
717.RS
718.TP
719.BI "ping-ok " millis
720A response was received
721.I millis
722after the ping was sent.
723.TP
724.BI "ping-timeout"
725No response was received within the time allowed.
726.TP
727.BI "ping-peer-died"
728The peer was killed (probably by another admin connection) before a
729response was received.
730.RE
731.IP
732Options recognized for this command are:
733.RS
734.\"+opts
735.TP
736.BI "\-background " tag
737Run the command in the background, using the given
738.IR tag .
739.TP
740.BI "\-timeout " time
741Wait for
742.I time
743seconds before giving up on a response. The default is 5 seconds. The
744.I time
745is expressed as a nonnegative integer followed optionally by
746.BR d ,
747.BR h ,
748.BR m ,
749or
750.BR s
751for days, hours, minutes, or seconds respectively; if no suffix is
752given, seconds are assumed.
753.\"-opts
754.RE
755.SP
756.B "PORT"
757.RI [ family ]
758Emits an
759.B INFO
760line containing just the number of the UDP port used by the
761.B tripe
762server, for the given address
763.I family
764(or one chosen arbitrarily if omitted -- though
765.B tripe
766tries to use the same port number consistently so this is not a likely
767problem in practice). If you've allowed your server to allocate a port
768dynamically, this is how to find out which one it chose.
769.SP
770.B "RELOAD"
771Instructs the server to recheck its keyring files. The server checks
772these periodically anyway but it may be necessary to force a recheck,
773for example after adding a new peer key.
774.SP
775.B "QUIT"
776Instructs the server to exit immediately. A warning is sent.
777.SP
778.B "SERVINFO"
779Returns information about the server, in the form of key-value pairs.
780The following keys are used.
781.RS
782.TP
783.B implementation
784A keyword naming the implementation of the
785.BR tripe (8)
786server. The current implementation is called
787.BR edgeware-tripe .
788.TP
789.B version
790The server's version number, as reported by
791.BR VERSION .
792.TP
793.B daemon
794Either
795.B t
796or
797.BR nil ,
798if the server has or hasn't (respectively) become a daemon.
799.RE
800.SP
801.BI "SETIFNAME " peer " " new-name
802Informs the server that the
803.IR peer 's
804tunnel-interface name has been changed to
805.IR new-name .
806This is useful if firewalling decisions are made based on interface
807names: a setup script for a particular peer can change the name, and
808then update the server's records so that they're accurate.
809.SP
810.BI "STATS " peer
811Emits a number of
812.B INFO
813lines, each containing one or more statistics in the form
814.IB name = value \fR.
815The statistics-gathering is experimental and subject to change.
816.SP
817.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
818Attempts to claim the named
819.IR service ,
820offering the given
821.IR version .
822The claim is successful if the service is currently unclaimed, or if
823a version earlier than
824.I version
825is provided; otherwise the command fails with the error
826.BR "service-exists" .
827.SP
828.BI "SVCENSURE " service " \fR[" version \fR]
829Ensure that
830.I service
831is provided, and (if specified) to at least the given
832.IR version .
833An error is reported if these conditions are not met; otherwise the
834command succeeds silently.
835.SP
836.BI "SVCFAIL " jobid " " tokens \fR...
837Send a
838.B FAIL
839(or
840.BR BGFAIL )
841response to the service job with the given
842.IR jobid ,
843passing the
844.I tokens
845as the reason for failure. The job is closed.
846.SP
847.BI "SVCINFO " jobid " " tokens \fR...
848Send an
849.B INFO
850(or
851.BR BGINFO )
852response to the service job with the given
853.IR jobid ,
854passing the
855.I tokens
856as the info message. The job remains open.
857.SP
858.B "SVCLIST"
859Output a line of the form
860.RS
861.IP
862.B INFO
863.I service
864.I version
865.PP
866for each service currently provided.
867.RE
868.SP
869.BI "SVCOK " jobid
870Send an
871.B OK
872(or
873.BR BGINFO )
874response to the service job with the given
875.IR jobid .
876The job is closed.
877.SP
878.BI "SVCQUERY " service
879Emits a number of
880.B info
881lines in key-value format, describing the named
882.IR service.
883The following keys are used.
884.RS
885.TP
886.B name
887The service's name.
888.TP
889.B version
890The service's version string.
891.RE
892.SP
893.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
894Announce that the client no longer wishes to provide the named
895.IR service .
896.SP
897.BI "SVCSUBMIT \fR[" options "\fR] " service " " command " " arguments \fR...
898Submit a job to the provider of the given
899.IR service ,
900passing it the named
901.I command
902and the given
903.IR arguments .
904The following options are accepted.
905.RS
906.\"+opts
907.TP
908.BI "\-background " tag
909Run the command in the background, using the given
910.IR tag .
911.TP
912.BI "\-version " version
913Ensure that at least the given
914.I version
915of the service is available before submitting the job.
916.RE
917.\"-opts
918.SP
919.BR "TRACE " [\fIoptions\fP]
920Selects trace outputs: see
921.B "Trace lists"
922above. Message types provided are:
923.RS
924.PP
925Currently, the following tracing options are supported:
926.TP
927.B t
928Tunnel events: reception of packets to be encrypted, and injection of
929successfully-decrypted packets.
930.TP
931.B r
932Peer management events: creation and destruction of peer attachments,
933and arrival of messages.
934.TP
935.B a
936Administration interface: acceptance of new connections, and handling of
937the backgroud name-resolution required by the
938.B ADD
939command.
940.TP
941.B s
942Handling of symmetric keysets: creation and expiry of keysets, and
943encryption and decryption of messages.
944.TP
945.B x
946Key exchange: reception, parsing and emission of key exchange messages.
947.TP
948.B m
949Key management: loading keys and checking for file modifications.
950.TP
951.B l
952Display information about challenge issuing and verification.
953.TP
954.B p
955Display contents of packets sent and received by the tunnel and/or peer
956modules.
957.TP
958.B c
959Display inputs, outputs and intermediate results of cryptographic
960operations. This includes plaintext and key material. Use with
961caution.
962.TP
963.B A
964All of the above.
965.PP
966Note that the
967.B p
968(packet contents)
969and
970.B c
971(crypto details)
972outputs provide extra detail for other outputs. Specifying
973.B p
974without
975.BR r
976or
977.B t
978isn't useful; neither is specifying
979.B c
980without one of
981.BR s ,
982.BR l ,
983.B x
984or
985.BR m .
986.RE
987.SP
988.B "TUNNELS"
989For each available tunnel driver, an
990.B INFO
991line is printed giving its name.
992.SP
993.B "VERSION"
994Causes the server to emit an
995.B INFO
996line stating its software version, as two tokens: the server name, and
997its version string. The server name
998.B tripe
999is reserved to the Straylight/Edgeware implementation.
1000.SP
1001.BR "WATCH " [\fIoptions\fP]
1002Enables or disables asynchronous broadcasts
1003.IR "for the current connection only" .
1004See
1005.B "Trace lists"
1006above. The default watch state for the connection the server opens
1007automatically on stdin/stdout is to show warnings and trace messages;
1008other connections show no asynchronous broadcast messages. (This is
1009done in order to guarantee that a program reading the server's stdout
1010does not miss any warnings.)
1011.RS
1012.PP
1013Message types provided are:
1014.TP
1015.B t
1016.B TRACE
1017messages.
1018.TP
1019.B n
1020.B NOTE
1021messages.
1022.TP
1023.B w
1024.B WARN
1025messages.
1026.TP
1027.B A
1028All of the above.
1029.RE
1030.SP
1031.BI "WARN " tokens\fR...
1032Issues a
1033.B USER
1034warning to all interested administration clients.
1035.
1036.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1037.SH "ERROR MESSAGES"
1038.
1039.\"* 20 Error messages (FAIL codes)
1040The following
1041.B FAIL
1042(or
1043.BR BGFAIL )
1044messages are sent to clients as a result of errors during command
1045processing.
1046.SP
1047.BI "already-daemon"
1048(For
1049.BR DAEMON .)
1050The
1051.B tripe
1052server is already running as a daemon.
1053.SP
1054.BI "bad-addr-syntax " message
1055(For commands accepting socket addresses.) The address couldn't be
1056understood.
1057.SP
1058.BI "bad-base64 " message
1059(For commands accepting Base64-encoded input.) The Base64-encoded
1060string was invalid.
1061.SP
1062.BI "bad-syntax " cmd " " message
1063(For any command.) The command couldn't be understood: e.g., the number
1064of arguments was wrong.
1065.SP
1066.BI "bad-time-spec " token
1067The
1068.I token
1069is not a valid time interval specification. Acceptable time
1070specifications are nonnegative integers followed optionally by
1071.BR d ,
1072.BR h ,
1073.BR m ,
1074or
1075.BR s ,
1076for days, hours, minutes, or seconds, respectively.
1077.SP
1078.BI "bad-trace-option " char
1079(For
1080.BR TRACE .)
1081An unknown trace option was requested.
1082.SP
1083.BI "bad-watch-option " char
1084(For
1085.BR WATCH .)
1086An unknown watch option was requested.
1087.SP
1088.BI "daemon-error " ecode " " message
1089(For
1090.BR DAEMON .)
1091An error occurred during the attempt to become a daemon, as reported by
1092.IR message .
1093.SP
1094.BI "disabled-address-family " afam
1095(For
1096.B ADD
1097and
1098.BR PORT .)
1099The address family
1100.I afam
1101is supported, but was disabled using command-line arguments.
1102.SP
1103.BI "invalid-port " number
1104(For
1105.BR ADD .)
1106The given port number is out of range.
1107.SP
1108.BI "not-service-provider " service
1109(For
1110.BR SVCRELEASE .)
1111The invoking client is not the current provider of the named
1112.IR service ,
1113and is therefore not allowed to release it.
1114.SP
1115.BI "peer-create-fail " peer
1116(For
1117.BR ADD .)
1118Adding
1119.I peer
1120failed for some reason. A warning should have been emitted explaining
1121why.
1122.SP
1123.BI "peer-addr-exists " address\fR...
1124(For
1125.BR ADD .)
1126There is already a peer with the given
1127.IR address .
1128.SP
1129.BI "peer-exists " peer
1130(For
1131.BR ADD .)
1132There is already a peer named
1133.IR peer .
1134.SP
1135.B "ping-send-failed"
1136The attempt to send a ping packet failed, probably due to lack of
1137encryption keys.
1138.SP
1139.B "provider-failed"
1140(For
1141.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1142The service provider disconnected without sending back a final reply to
1143the job.
1144.SP
1145.B "provider-overloaded"
1146(For
1147.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1148The service provider has too many jobs queued up for it already.
1149.SP
1150.BI "resolve-error " hostname
1151(For
1152.BR ADD .)
1153The DNS name
1154.I hostname
1155could not be resolved.
1156.SP
1157.BI "resolver-timeout " hostname
1158(For
1159.BR ADD .)
1160The DNS name
1161.I hostname
1162took too long to resolve.
1163.SP
1164.BI "service-exists " service " " version
1165(For
1166.BR SVCCLAIM .)
1167Another client is already providing the stated
1168.I version
1169of the
1170.IR service .
1171.SP
1172.BI "service-too-old " service " " version
1173(For
1174.B SVCENSURE
1175and
1176.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1177Only the given
1178.I version
1179of the requested
1180.I service
1181is available, which does not meet the stated requirements.
1182.SP
1183.BI "tag-exists " tag
1184(For long-running commands.) The named
1185.I tag
1186is already the tag of an outstanding job.
1187.SP
1188.BI "unknown-address-family " afam
1189(For
1190.BR PORT .)
1191The address family
1192.I afam
1193is unrecognized.
1194.SP
1195.BI "unknown-command " token
1196The command
1197.I token
1198was not recognized.
1199.SP
1200.BI "unknown-jobid " jobid
1201(For
1202.BR SVCOK ,
1203.BR SVCFAIL ,
1204and
1205.BR SVCINFO .)
1206The token
1207.I jobid
1208is not recognized as identifying an outstanding job. It may have just
1209been cancelled.
1210.SP
1211.BI "unknown-peer " name
1212(For
1213.BR ADDR ,
1214.BR IFNAME ,
1215.BR KILL ,
1216.BR SETIFNAME ,
1217and
1218.BR STATS .)
1219There is no peer called
1220.IR name .
1221.SP
1222.BI "unknown-port " port
1223(For
1224.BR ADD .)
1225The port name
1226.I port
1227couldn't be found in
1228.BR /etc/services .
1229.SP
1230.BI "unknown-service " service
1231(For
1232.BR SVCENSURE ,
1233.BR SVCQUERY ,
1234.BR SVCRELEASE ,
1235and
1236.BR SVCSUBMIT .)
1237The token
1238.I service
1239is not recognized as the name of a client-provided service.
1240.SP
1241.BI "unknown-tag " tag
1242(For
1243.BR BGCANCEL .)
1244The given
1245.I tag
1246is not the tag for any outstanding background job. It may have just
1247finished.
1248.SP
1249.BI "unknown-tunnel " tun
1250(For
1251.BR ADD .)
1252The given
1253.I tun
1254is not the name of any known tunnel driver.
1255.
1256.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1257.SH "NOTIFICATIONS"
1258.
1259.\"* 30 Notification broadcasts (NOTE codes)
1260The following notifications are sent to clients who request them.
1261.SP
1262.BI "ADD " peer " " ifname " " address \fR...
1263A new peer has been added. The peer's name is
1264.IR peer ,
1265its tunnel is network interface
1266.IR ifname ,
1267and its network address is
1268.IR address .
1269.SP
1270.BI "DAEMON"
1271The server has forked off into the sunset and become a daemon.
1272.SP
1273.BI "GREET " challenge " " address \fR...
1274A valid greeting was received, with the given challenge (exactly as it
1275was returned by
1276.B GETCHAL
1277earlier).
1278.SP
1279.BI "KILL " peer
1280The peer
1281.I peer
1282has been killed.
1283.SP
1284.BI "KNOCK " peer " " address
1285The currently unknown
1286.I peer
1287is attempting to connect from
1288.IR address .
1289.SP
1290.BI "KXDONE " peer
1291Key exchange with
1292.I peer
1293finished successfully.
1294.SP
1295.BI "KXSTART " peer
1296Key exchange with
1297.I peer
1298has begun or restarted. If key exchange keeps failing, this message
1299will be repeated periodically.
1300.SP
1301.BI "NEWADDR " peer " " address
1302The given mobile
1303.IR peer 's
1304IP address has been changed to
1305.IR address .
1306.SP
1307.BI "NEWIFNAME " peer " " old-name " " new-name
1308The given
1309.IR peer 's
1310tunnel interface name has been changed from
1311.I old-name
1312to
1313.IR new-name ,
1314as a result of a
1315.B SETIFNAME
1316command.
1317.SP
1318.BI "SVCCLAIM " service " " version
1319The named
1320.I service
1321is now available, at the stated
1322.IR version .
1323.SP
1324.BI "SVCRELEASE " service
1325The named
1326.I service
1327is no longer available.
1328.SP
1329.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1330An administration client issued a notification using the
1331.B NOTIFY
1332command.
1333.
1334.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1335.SH "WARNINGS"
1336.
1337.\"* 40 Warning broadcasts (WARN codes)
1338.\"+sep
1339There are many possible warnings. They are categorized according to
1340their first tokens.
1341.PP
1342Many of these warnings report system errors. These are reported as a
1343pair of tokens, described below as
1344.I ecode
1345and
1346.IR message .
1347The
1348.I ecode
1349is a string of the form
1350.BI E number
1351giving the
1352.BR errno (3)
1353value of the error; the
1354.I message
1355is the `human-readable' form of the message, as reported by
1356.BR strerror (3).
1357.SS "ABORT warnings"
1358These all indicate that the
1359.B tripe
1360server has become unable to continue. If enabled, the server will dump
1361core in its configuration directory.
1362.SP
1363.BI "ABORT repeated-select-errors"
1364The main event loop is repeatedly failing. If the server doesn't quit,
1365it will probably waste all available CPU doing nothing.
1366.SP
1367.BI "ABORT hash-size-too-large hash " name " size " sz " limit " max
1368An internal inconsistency: the hash function
1369.I name
1370produces a
1371.IR sz -byte
1372hash, but the server has been compiled to assume that no hash function
1373returns more than
1374.I max
1375bytes.
1376.SS "ADMIN warnings"
1377These indicate a problem with the administration socket interface.
1378.SP
1379.BI "ADMIN accept-error " ecode " " message
1380There was an error while attempting to accept a connection from a new
1381client.
1382.SP
1383.BI "ADMIN client-write-error " ecode " " message
1384There was an error sending data to a client. The connection to the
1385client has been closed.
1386.SP
1387.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " already-in-use"
1388The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1389filesystem, because there's already a socket there, and some other
1390process is actively listening for incoming connections.
1391.SP
1392.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " bind-failed " ecode " " message
1393The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1394filesystem for an unusual reason. (The usual reason is
1395.BR EADDRINUSE ,
1396but this is handled specially.)
1397.SP
1398.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " chmod-failed " ecode " " message
1399The server failed to set the correct permissions of the Unix-domain
1400socket object.
1401.SP
1402.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " chown-failed " ecode " " message
1403The server failed to set the correct ownership of the Unix-domain socket
1404object.
1405.SP
1406.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " create-failed " ecode " " message
1407The server failed to create its administration socket. This is usually
1408because some system resource is unavailable.
1409.SP
1410.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " listen-failed " ecode " " message
1411The server failed to arrange to receive incoming connections on its
1412Unix-domain socket.
1413.SP
1414.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " name-too-long"
1415The server can't create its administration socket, because the chosen
1416pathname
1417.I path
1418is too long. There is, for historical reasons, a rather tight limit on
1419the length of name permitted for Unix-domain sockets, usually around 108
1420bytes.
1421.SP
1422.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " stat-failed " ecode " " message
1423The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1424filesystem, because there's already something there, but the server
1425couldn't discover what.
1426.SP
1427.BI "ADMIN admin-socket " path " too-many-retries"
1428The server failed to create the Unix-domain socket object in the
1429filesystem. This error indicates that another process is also
1430repeatedly trying to create a Unix-domain socket at the same
1431.IR path ,
1432and then failing to actually listen for connections on it, but the
1433server always loses the applicable race for some reason. This situation
1434merits investigation.
1435.SP
1436.BI "ADMIN adns-init-failed " ecode " " message
1437The server failed to initialize the ADNS asynchronous DNS-resolution
1438library.
1439.SS "CHAL warnings"
1440These indicate errors in challenges, either in the
1441.B CHECKCHAL
1442command or in greeting packets.
1443.SP
1444.B "CHAL impossible-challenge"
1445The server hasn't issued any challenges yet. Quite how anyone else
1446thought he could make one up is hard to imagine.
1447.SP
1448.B "CHAL incorrect-tag"
1449Challenge received contained the wrong authentication data. It might be
1450very stale, or a forgery.
1451.SP
1452.B "CHAL invalid-challenge"
1453Challenge received was the wrong length. We might have changed MAC
1454algorithms since the challenge was issued, or it might just be rubbish.
1455.SP
1456.B "CHAL replay duplicated-sequence"
1457Challenge received was a definite replay of an old challenge. Someone's
1458up to something!
1459.SP
1460.B "CHAL replay old-sequence"
1461Challenge received was old, but maybe not actually a replay. Try again.
1462.SS "KEYMGMT warnings"
1463These indicate a problem with the keyring files, or the keys stored in
1464them. The first token is either
1465.B private-keyring
1466or
1467.B public-keyring
1468(notated
1469.IB which -keyring
1470in the descriptions below) indicating which keyring file is problematic,
1471and the second token is the filename of the keyring. Frequently a key
1472tag may be given next, preceded by the token
1473.BR key .
1474.SP
1475.BI "KEYMGMT public-keyring " file " key " tag " algorithm-mismatch"
1476A peer's public key doesn't request the same algorithms as our private
1477key.
1478.SP
1479.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " bad-tag-length " len
1480The key attributes specify the length of MAC tag as
1481.I len
1482but this is an invalid value \(en either too large or not a multiple of
1483eight.
1484.SP
1485.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " bad-tag-length-string " str
1486The key attributes contain
1487.I str
1488where a MAC tag length was expected. The key was generated wrongly.
1489.SP
1490.BI "KEYMGMT private-keyring " file " key " tag " incorrect-public-key"
1491The private key doesn't record the correct corresponding public key.
1492.SP
1493.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " io-error " ecode " " message
1494A system error occurred while opening or reading the keyring file.
1495.SP
1496.BI "KEYMGMT private-keyring " file " key " tag " changed-group"
1497The private keyring has been changed, but the new private key can't be
1498used because it uses a different group for Diffie\(enHellman key
1499exchange.
1500.SP
1501.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " no-hmac-for-hash " hash
1502No message authentication code was given explicitly, and there's no
1503implementation of HMAC for the selected hash function
1504.IR hash .
1505.SP
1506.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-bulk-transform " bulk
1507The key specifies the use of an unknown bulk-crypto transform
1508.IR bulk .
1509Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1510installed is too old.
1511.SP
1512.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-cipher " cipher
1513The key specifies the use of an unknown symmetric encryption algorithm
1514.IR cipher .
1515Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of
1516Catacomb installed is too old.
1517.SP
1518.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-group-type " type
1519The key specifies the use of a Diffie\(enHellman group of an unknown
1520.IR type .
1521Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of
1522.BR tripe (8)
1523is too old.
1524.SP
1525.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-hash " hash
1526The key specifies the use of an unknown hash function
1527.IR hash .
1528Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the version of Catacomb
1529installed is too old.
1530.SP
1531.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-mac " mac
1532The key specifies the use of an unknown message authentication code
1533.IR mac .
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-mgf-cipher " mgf
1538The key specifies the use of an unknown symmetric encryption function
1539.I mgf
1540for mask generation. Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or maybe the
1541version of Catacomb installed is too old.
1542.SP
1543.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unknown-serialization-format " ser
1544The key specifies the use of an unknown serialization format
1545.I ser
1546for hashing group elements. Maybe the key was generated wrongly, or
1547maybe the version of Catacomb installed is too old.
1548.SP
1549.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "no-aad"
1550The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1551.I cipher
1552which does not support the processing of additional authenticated data.
1553The most prominent examples of such schemes are the
1554.IB cipher -naclbox
1555collection, where
1556.I cipher
1557is
1558.BR salsa20 ,
1559.BR salsa20/12 ,
1560.BR salsa20/8 ,
1561.BR chacha20 ,
1562.BR chacha12 ,
1563or
1564.BR chacha8 ;
1565use the
1566.B naclbox
1567bulk transform rather than
1568.B aead
1569for these
1570(or switch to the IETF
1571.IB cipher -poly1305
1572schemes instead).
1573.SP
1574.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonce-too-small"
1575The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1576.I cipher
1577which doesn't even allow a 5-byte (40-bit) nonce. Catacomb doesn't
1578implement any such limited AE schemes: you must be doing something
1579strange.
1580.SP
1581.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonce-too-large"
1582The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1583.I cipher
1584which doesn't support any nonce size smaller than 64 bytes (512 bits).
1585Catacomb doesn't implement any such extravagant AE schemes: you must be
1586doing something strange.
1587.SP
1588.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " unsuitable-aead-cipher " cipher "nonempty-ciphertext-for-empty-message"
1589The key specifies the use of an authenticated encryption scheme
1590.I cipher
1591which produces ciphertext output even when given a completely empty
1592message. Catacomb doesn't implement any such unhelpful AE schemes: you
1593must be doing something strange.
1594.SP
1595.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " " alg " " name " no-key-size " hashsz
1596The
1597.I alg
1598token is either
1599.B cipher
1600or
1601.BR mac .
1602The named algorithm requires more key material than the hash function
1603can provide. You must change either the hash function, or the cipher or
1604MAC.
1605.SP
1606.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key " tag " mgf " mgf " restrictive-key-schedule"
1607The cipher selected for mask-generation is unsuitable because it can't
1608accept arbitrary-sized keys.
1609.SP
1610.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " key-not-found " tag
1611A key named
1612.I tag
1613couldn't be found in the keyring.
1614.SP
1615.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " unknown-key-id 0x" keyid
1616A key with the given
1617.I keyid
1618(in hex) was requested but not found.
1619.SP
1620.BI "KEYMGMT " which "-keyring " file " line " line " " message
1621The contents of the keyring file are invalid. There may well be a bug
1622in the
1623.BR key (1)
1624program.
1625.SS "KX warnings"
1626These indicate problems during key-exchange. Many indicate either a bug
1627in the server (either yours or the remote one), or some kind of attack
1628in progress. All name a
1629.I peer
1630as the second token: this is the peer the packet is apparently from,
1631though it may have been sent by an attacker instead.
1632.PP
1633In the descriptions below,
1634.I msgtoken
1635is one of the tokens
1636.BR pre-challenge ,
1637.BR cookie ,
1638.BR challenge ,
1639.BR reply ,
1640.BR switch-rq ,
1641.BR switch-ok .
1642.BR token-rq ,
1643.BR token ,
1644or
1645.BR knock .
1646.SP
1647.BI "KX " peer " algorithms-mismatch local-private-key " privtag " peer-public-key " pubtag
1648The algorithms specified in the peer's public key
1649.I pubtag
1650don't match the ones described in the private key
1651.IR privtag .
1652.SP
1653.BI "KX " peer " bad-expected-reply-log"
1654The challenges
1655.B tripe
1656uses in its protocol contain a check value which proves that the
1657challenge is honest. This message indicates that the check value
1658supplied is wrong: someone is attempting to use bogus challenges to
1659persuade your
1660.B tripe
1661server to leak private key information. No chance!
1662.SP
1663.BI "KX " peer " decrypt-failed reply\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
1664A symmetrically-encrypted portion of a key-exchange message failed to
1665decrypt.
1666.SP
1667.BI "KX " peer " invalid " msgtoken
1668A key-exchange message was malformed. This almost certainly indicates a
1669bug somewhere.
1670.SP
1671.BI "KX " peer " incorrect cookie\fR|\fBswitch-rq\fR|\fBswitch-ok"
1672A message didn't contain the right magic data. This may be a replay of
1673some old exchange, or random packets being sent in an attempt to waste
1674CPU.
1675.SP
1676.BI "KX " peer " " which "-key-expired"
1677The local private key or the peer's public key (distinguished by
1678.IR which )
1679has expired. Either you or the peer's maintainer should have arranged
1680for a replacement before now.
1681.SP
1682.BI "KX " peer " sending-cookie"
1683We've received too many bogus pre-challenge messages. Someone is trying
1684to flood us with key-exchange messages and make us waste CPU on doing
1685hard asymmetric crypto sums.
1686.SP
1687.BI "KX " peer " unexpected " msgtoken
1688The message received wasn't appropriate for this stage of the key
1689exchange process. This may mean that one of our previous packets got
1690lost. For
1691.BR pre-challenge ,
1692it may simply mean that the peer has recently restarted.
1693.SP
1694.BI "KX " peer " unknown-challenge"
1695The peer is asking for an answer to a challenge which we don't know
1696about. This may mean that we've been inundated with challenges from
1697some malicious source
1698.I who can read our messages
1699and discarded the valid one.
1700.SP
1701.BI "KX " peer " unknown-message 0x" nn
1702An unknown key-exchange message arrived.
1703.SS "PEER warnings"
1704These are largely concerned with management of peers and the low-level
1705details of the network protocol. The second token is usually the name of
1706a peer, or
1707.RB ` \- '
1708if none is relevant.
1709.SP
1710.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet no-type"
1711An empty packet arrived. This is very strange.
1712.SP
1713.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-category 0x" nn
1714The message category
1715.I nn
1716(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1717somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
1718.SP
1719.BI "PEER " peer " bad-packet unknown-type 0x" nn
1720The message type
1721.I nn
1722(in hex) isn't understood. Probably a strange random packet from
1723somewhere; could be an unlikely bug.
1724.SP
1725.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-encrypted-ping"
1726The peer sent a ping response which matches an outstanding ping, but its
1727payload is wrong. There's definitely a bug somewhere.
1728.SP
1729.BI "PEER " peer " corrupt-transport-ping"
1730The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which matches an outstanding
1731ping, but its payload is wrong. Either there's a bug, or the bad guys
1732are playing tricks on you.
1733.SP
1734.BI "PEER " peer " decrypt-failed"
1735An encrypted IP packet failed to decrypt. It may have been mangled in
1736transit, or may be a very old packet from an expired previous session
1737key. There is usually a considerable overlap in the validity periods of
1738successive session keys, so this shouldn't occur unless the key exchange
1739takes ages or fails.
1740.SP
1741.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-encrypted-ping"
1742The peer sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid. There's
1743definitely a bug somewhere.
1744.SP
1745.BI "PEER " peer " malformed-transport-ping"
1746The peer (apparently) sent a ping response which is hopelessly invalid.
1747Either there's a bug, or the bad guys are playing tricks on you.
1748.SP
1749.BI "PEER " peer " packet-build-failed"
1750There wasn't enough space in our buffer to put the packet we wanted to
1751send. Shouldn't happen.
1752.SP
1753.BI "PEER \- socket-read-error " ecode " " message
1754An error occurred trying to read an incoming packet.
1755.SP
1756.BI "PEER " peer " socket-write-error " ecode " " message
1757An error occurred attempting to send a network packet. We lost that
1758one.
1759.SP
1760.BI "PEER " address\fR... " disabled-address-family"
1761An attempt was made to send a packet to an address for which support was
1762switched off by command-line options.
1763.SP
1764.BI "PEER " address\fR... " socket-write-error " ecode " " message
1765An error occurred attempting to send a network packet. We lost that
1766one.
1767.SP
1768.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " bind-failed " ecode " " message
1769The server failed to associate a UDP socket with a local address.
1770.SP
1771.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " create-failed " ecode " " message
1772The server failed to create a UDP socket for the
1773.IR address-family .
1774.SP
1775.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " read-local-address-failed " ecode " " message
1776The server failed to discover the local address for one of its own UDP
1777sockets.
1778.SP
1779.BI "PEER \- udp-socket " address-family " set-buffers-failed " ecode " " message
1780The server failed to configure appropriate buffer sizes on a UDP socket.
1781.SP
1782.BI "PEER \- udp-socket INET6 set-v6only-failed " ecode " " message
1783The server failed to configure an IPv6 socket not to try to collect IPv4
1784traffic too.
1785.SP
1786.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-encrypted-ping 0x" id
1787The peer sent an encrypted ping response whose id doesn't match any
1788outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the server was
1789willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad.
1790.SP
1791.BI "PEER \- unexpected-source " address\fR...
1792A packet arrived from
1793.I address
1794(a network address \(en see above), but no peer is known at that
1795address. This may indicate a misconfiguration, or simply be a result of
1796one end of a connection being set up before the other.
1797.SP
1798.BI "PEER " peer " unexpected-transport-ping 0x" id
1799The peer (apparently) sent a transport ping response whose id doesn't
1800match any outstanding ping. Maybe it was delayed for longer than the
1801server was willing to wait, or maybe the peer has gone mad; or maybe
1802there are bad people trying to confuse you.
1803.SS "PRIVSEP warnings"
1804These indicate problems with the privilege-separation helper process.
1805(The server tries to drop its privileges when it starts up, leaving a
1806privileged helper process behind which will create and hand over tunnel
1807descriptors on request, but hopefully not do anything else especially
1808dangerous. Tunnel descriptors are not completely safe, but this is
1809probably better than nothing.)
1810.SP
1811.BI "PRIVSEP child-exited " rc
1812The helper process exited normally with status
1813.IR rc .
1814Status 0 means that it thought the server didn't want it any more; 1
1815means that it was invoked incorrectly; 127 means that some system call
1816failed.
1817.SP
1818.BI "PRIVSEP child-killed " sig
1819The helper process was killed by signal number
1820.IR sig .
1821.SP
1822.BI "PRIVSEP child-died " status
1823The helper process died in some unexpected way;
1824.I status is the raw status code returned by
1825.BR waitpid (2),
1826because the server didn't understand how to decode it.
1827.SP
1828.BI "PRIVSEP helper-died"
1829A tunnel driver requires a tunnel descriptor from the helper, but the
1830helper isn't running so this won't work.
1831.SP
1832.BI "PRIVSEP helper-read-error " ecode " " message
1833The server failed to read a response from the helper process.
1834.SP
1835.BI "PRIVSEP helper-short-read"
1836The helper process didn't send back enough data, and has likely crashed.
1837.SP
1838.BI "PRIVSEP helper-write-error " ecode " " message
1839The server failed to send a message to the helper process.
1840.SP
1841.BI "PRIVSEP no-fd-from-helper"
1842The helper process sent back a positive response, but didn't include the
1843requested tunnel descriptor.
1844.SP
1845.BI "PRIVSEP socketpair-create-failed " ecode " " message
1846The server couldn't create the socketpair it's supposed to use to
1847communicate with the helper process.
1848.SP
1849.BI "PRIVSEP unknown-response-code"
1850The helper process sent back an incomprehensible reply. It's probably
1851very confused and may crash.
1852.SS "SERVER warnings"
1853These indicate problems concerning the server process as a whole.
1854.SP
1855.BI "SERVER ignore signal " name
1856A signal arrived, but the server ignored it. Currently this happens for
1857.B SIGHUP
1858because that's a popular way of telling daemons to re-read their
1859configuration files. Since
1860.B tripe
1861re-reads its keyrings automatically and has no other configuration
1862files, it's not relevant, but it seemed better to ignore the signal than
1863let the server die.
1864.SP
1865.BI "SERVER quit signal " \fR[\fInn\fR|\fIname\fR]
1866A signal arrived and
1867.B tripe
1868is going to quit.
1869.SP
1870.BI "SERVER quit admin-request"
1871A client of the administration interface issued a
1872.B QUIT
1873command.
1874.SP
1875.BI "SERVER daemon-error " ecode " " message
1876The server failed to become a daemon during initialization.
1877.SP
1878.BI "SERVER quit foreground-eof"
1879The server is running in foreground mode (the
1880.B \-F
1881option), and encountered end-of-file on standard input.
1882.SP
1883.BI "SERVER select-error " ecode " " message
1884An error occurred in the server's main event loop. This is bad: if it
1885happens too many times, the server will abort.
1886.SP
1887.BI "SERVER waitpid-error " ecode " " message
1888The server was informed that one of its child processes had exited, but
1889couldn't retrieve the child's status.
1890.SS "SYMM warnings"
1891These are concerned with the symmetric encryption and decryption
1892process.
1893.SP
1894.BI "SYMM replay old-sequence"
1895A packet was received with an old sequence number. It may just have
1896been delayed or duplicated, or it may have been an attempt at a replay
1897attack.
1898.SP
1899.BI "SYMM replay duplicated-sequence"
1900A packet was received with a sequence number we've definitely seen
1901before. It may be an accidental duplication because the 'net is like
1902that, or a deliberate attempt at a replay.
1903.SS "TUN warnings"
1904These concern the workings of the system-specific tunnel driver. The
1905second token is the name of the tunnel interface in question, or
1906.RB ` \- '
1907if none.
1908.SP
1909.BI "TUN \- bsd no-tunnel-devices"
1910The driver couldn't find an available tunnel device. Maybe if you
1911create some more
1912.BI /dev/tun nn
1913files, it will work.
1914.SP
1915.BI "TUN \- " tun-name " open-error " device " " ecode " " message
1916An attempt to open the tunnel device file
1917.I device
1918failed.
1919.SP
1920.BI "TUN \- linux config-error " ecode " " message
1921Configuring the Linux TUN/TAP interface failed.
1922.SP
1923.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " read-error " ecode " " message
1924Reading from the tunnel device failed.
1925.SP
1926.BI "TUN " ifname " " tun-name " write-error " ecode " " message
1927Writing from the tunnel device failed.
1928.SP
1929.BI "TUN " ifname " slip bad-escape"
1930The SLIP driver encountered a escaped byte it wasn't expecting to see.
1931The erroneous packet will be ignored.
1932.SP
1933.BI "TUN \- slip bad-interface-list"
1934The interface list, in the
1935.B TRIPE_SLIPIF
1936environment variable, is malformed.
1937.SP
1938.BI "TUN " ifname " slip eof"
1939The SLIP driver encountered end-of-file on its input descriptor.
1940Pending data is discarded, and no attempt is made to read any more data
1941from that interface ever.
1942.SP
1943.BI "TUN " ifname " slip escape-end"
1944The SLIP driver encountered an escaped `end' marker. This probably
1945means that someone's been sending it junk. The erroneous packet is
1946discarded, and we hope that we've rediscovered synchronization.
1947.SP
1948.BI "TUN \- slip fork-error " ecode " " message
1949The SLIP driver encountered an error forking a child process while
1950allocating a new dynamic interface.
1951.SP
1952.BI "TUN \- slip no-slip-interfaces"
1953The driver ran out of static SLIP interfaces. Either preallocate more,
1954or use dynamic SLIP interface allocation.
1955.SP
1956.BI "TUN " ifname " slip overflow"
1957The SLIP driver gave up reading a packet because it got too large.
1958.SP
1959.BI "TUN \- slip pipe-error " ecode " " message
1960The SLIP driver encountered an error creating pipes while allocating a
1961new dynamic interface.
1962.SP
1963.BI "TUN \- slip read-ifname-failed " ecode " " message
1964The SLIP driver encountered an error reading the name of a dynamically
1965allocated interface. Maybe the allocation script is broken.
1966.SP
1967.BI "TUN \- unet config-error " ecode " " message
1968Configuring the Linux Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete and
1969shouldn't be used any more.
1970.SP
1971.BI "TUN \- unet getinfo-error " ecode " " message
1972Reading information about the Unet interface failed. Unet is obsolete
1973and shouldn't be used any more.
1974.SS "USER warnings"
1975These are issued by administration clients using the
1976.B WARN
1977command.
1978.SP
1979.BI "USER " tokens\fR...
1980An administration client issued a warning.
1981.\"-sep
1982.
1983.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1984.SH "SUMMARY"
1985.
1986.SS "Command responses"
1987.nf
1988.BI "BGDETACH " tag
1989.BI "BGFAIL " tag " " tokens \fR...
1990.BI "BGINFO " tag " " tokens \fR...
1991.BI "BGOK " tag
1992.BI "FAIL " tokens \fR...
1993.BI "INFO " tokens \fR...
1994.B OK
1995.fi
1996.\"= summary
1997.
1998.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1999.SH "SEE ALSO"
2000.
2001.BR tripectl (1),
2002.BR tripe (8).
2003.PP
2004.IR "The Trivial IP Encryption Protocol" .
2005.
2006.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
2007.SH "AUTHOR"
2008.
2009Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
2010.
2011.\"----- That's all, folks --------------------------------------------------