NAME

       dtpcd - DTPC daemon task for receiving and processing DTPC ADUs in bundles

SYNOPSIS

       dtpcd

DESCRIPTION

       dtpcd is a background "daemon" task that manages the reception and processing of DTPC protocol data
       units.  It receives the payloads of bundles destined for the "ipn"-scheme endpoint whose node number is
       the number of the local node and whose service number is the DTPC_RECV_SVC_NBR (129 as of the time of
       this writeng).

       DTPC protocol data units are of two types: application data units (ADUs, i.e., aggregations of
       application data items) and acknowledgments.  Each acknowledgment is interpreted as authorization to
       release the buffer space occupied by the node's local copy of the acknowledged ADU.  Each ADU is parsed
       into its constituent application data items, which are then delivered to the applications awaiting them,
       and when required a DTPC end-to-end acknowledgment PDU is returned to the DTPC PDU sender.

EXIT STATUS

       0   dtpcd  terminated  normally,  for  reasons  noted  in  the ion.log file.  If this termination was not
           commanded, investigate and solve the problem identified in the log file and use dtpcadmin to  restart
           dtpcd.

       1   dtpcd  terminated  abnormally,  for  reasons  noted  in  the ion.log file.  Investigate and solve the
           problem identified in the log file, then use dtpcadmin to restart dtpcd.

FILES

       No configuration files are needed.

ENVIRONMENT

       No environment variables apply.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The following diagnostics may be issued to the ion.log log file:

       DTPC can't open own 'send' endpoint.
           Bundle protocol agent has not been started.  See ion(3).

       dtpcd can't attach to DTPC.
           dtpcadmin has not yet initialized DTPC protocol operations.

BUGS

       Report bugs to <ion-bugs@korgano.eecs.ohiou.edu>

SEE ALSO

       dtpcadmin(1), ion(3)

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