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        !            20: .TH ICMP 4 "June 23, 1990"
        !            21: .UC 6
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: icmp \- Internet Control Message Protocol
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .B #include <sys/socket.h>
        !            26: .br
        !            27: .B #include <netinet/in.h>
        !            28: .PP
        !            29: .B s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, proto);
        !            30: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            31: ICMP is the error and control message protocol used
        !            32: by IP and the Internet protocol family.  It may be accessed
        !            33: through a \*(lqraw socket\*(rq for network monitoring
        !            34: and diagnostic functions.
        !            35: The
        !            36: .I proto
        !            37: parameter to the socket call to create an ICMP socket
        !            38: is obtained from
        !            39: .IR getprotobyname (3).
        !            40: ICMP sockets are connectionless,
        !            41: and are normally used with the
        !            42: .I sendto 
        !            43: and
        !            44: .I recvfrom 
        !            45: calls, though the
        !            46: .IR connect (2)
        !            47: call may also be used to fix the destination for future
        !            48: packets (in which case the 
        !            49: .IR read (2)
        !            50: or
        !            51: .IR recv (2)
        !            52: and 
        !            53: .IR write (2)
        !            54: or
        !            55: .IR send (2)
        !            56: system calls may be used).
        !            57: .PP
        !            58: Outgoing packets automatically have an IP header prepended to
        !            59: them (based on the destination address).
        !            60: Incoming packets are received with the IP header and options intact.
        !            61: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            62: A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned:
        !            63: .TP 15
        !            64: [EISCONN]
        !            65: when trying to establish a connection on a socket which
        !            66: already has one, or when trying to send a datagram with the destination
        !            67: address specified and the socket is already connected;
        !            68: .TP 15
        !            69: [ENOTCONN]
        !            70: when trying to send a datagram, but
        !            71: no destination address is specified, and the socket hasn't been
        !            72: connected;
        !            73: .TP 15
        !            74: [ENOBUFS]
        !            75: when the system runs out of memory for
        !            76: an internal data structure;
        !            77: .TP 15
        !            78: [EADDRNOTAVAIL]
        !            79: when an attempt is made to create a 
        !            80: socket with a network address for which no network interface
        !            81: exists.
        !            82: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            83: send(2), recv(2), intro(4), inet(4), ip(4)

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