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<H1>IPSEC_TTOSA</H1>
Section: C Library Functions (3)<BR>Updated: 26 Nov 2001<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<A NAME="lbAB">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>NAME</H2>
ipsec ttosa, satot - convert IPsec Security Association IDs to and from text
<BR>
ipsec initsaid - initialize an SA ID
<A NAME="lbAC">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>#include &lt;<A HREF="file:/usr/include/freeswan.h">freeswan.h</A>&gt;</B>
<P>
<B>typedef struct {</B>
<BR>
&nbsp;
<B>ip_address dst;</B>
<BR>
&nbsp;
<B>ipsec_spi_t spi;</B>
<BR>
&nbsp;
<B>int proto;</B>
<BR>
<B>} ip_said;</B>
<P>
<B>const char *ttosa(const char *src, size_t srclen,</B>
<BR>
&nbsp;
<B>ip_said *sa);</B>
<BR>
<B>size_t satot(const ip_said *sa, int format,</B>
<BR>
&nbsp;
<B>char *dst, size_t dstlen);</B>
<BR>
<B>void initsaid(const ip_address *addr, ipsec_spi_t spi,</B>
<BR>
&nbsp;
<B>int proto, ip_said *dst);</B>
<A NAME="lbAD">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<I>Ttosa</I>
converts an ASCII Security Association (SA) specifier into an
<B>ip_said</B>
structure (containing
a destination-host address
in network byte order,
an SPI number in network byte order, and
a protocol code).
<I>Satot</I>
does the reverse conversion, back to a text SA specifier.
<I>Initsaid</I>
initializes an
<B>ip_said</B>
from separate items of information.
<P>
An SA is specified in text with a mail-like syntax, e.g.
<B><A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A></B>.
An SA specifier contains
a protocol prefix (currently
<B>ah</B>,
<B>esp</B>,
<B>tun</B>,
<B>comp</B>,
or
<B>int</B>),
a single character indicating the address family
(<B>.</B>
for IPv4,
<B>:</B>
for IPv6),
an unsigned integer SPI number in hexadecimal (with no
<B>0x</B>
prefix),
and an IP address.
The IP address can be any form accepted by
<I><A HREF="ipsec_ttoaddr.3.html">ipsec_ttoaddr</A></I>(3),
e.g. dotted-decimal IPv4 address,
colon-hex IPv6 address,
or DNS name.
<P>
As a special case, the SA specifier
<B>%passthrough4</B>
or
<B>%passthrough6</B>
signifies the special SA used to indicate that packets should be
passed through unaltered.
(At present, these are synonyms for
<B><A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A></B>
and
<B>tun:0@::</B>
respectively,
but that is subject to change without notice.)
<B>%passthrough</B>
is a historical synonym for
<B>%passthrough4</B>.
These forms are known to both
<I>ttosa</I>
and
<I>satot</I>,
so the internal representation is never visible.
<P>
Similarly, the SA specifiers
<B>%pass</B>,
<B>%drop</B>,
<B>%reject</B>,
<B>%hold</B>,
<B>%trap</B>,
and
<B>%trapsubnet</B>
signify special ``magic'' SAs used to indicate that packets should be
passed, dropped, rejected (dropped with ICMP notification),
held,
and trapped (sent up to
<I><A HREF="ipsec_pluto.8.html">ipsec_pluto</A></I>(8),
with either of two forms of
<B>%hold</B>
automatically installed)
respectively.
These forms too are known to both routines,
so the internal representation of the magic SAs should never be visible.
<P>
The
<B>&lt;<A HREF="file:/usr/include/freeswan.h">freeswan.h</A>&gt;</B>
header file supplies the
<B>ip_said</B>
structure, as well as a data type
<B>ipsec_spi_t</B>
which is an unsigned 32-bit integer.
(There is no consistency between kernel and user on what such a type
is called, hence the header hides the differences.)
<P>
The protocol code uses the same numbers that IP does.
For user convenience, given the difficulty in acquiring the exact set of
protocol names used by the kernel,
<B>&lt;<A HREF="file:/usr/include/freeswan.h">freeswan.h</A>&gt;</B>
defines the names
<B>SA_ESP</B>,
<B>SA_AH</B>,
<B>SA_IPIP</B>,
and
<B>SA_COMP</B>
to have the same values as the kernel names
<B>IPPROTO_ESP</B>,
<B>IPPROTO_AH</B>,
<B>IPPROTO_IPIP</B>,
and
<B>IPPROTO_COMP</B>.
<P>
<B>&lt;<A HREF="file:/usr/include/freeswan.h">freeswan.h</A>&gt;</B>
also defines
<B>SA_INT</B>
to have the value
<B>61</B>
(reserved by IANA for ``any host internal protocol'')
and
<B>SPI_PASS</B>,
<B>SPI_DROP</B>,
<B>SPI_REJECT</B>,
<B>SPI_HOLD</B>,
and
<B>SPI_TRAP</B>
to have the values 256-260 (in <I>host</I> byte order) respectively.
These are used in constructing the magic SAs
(which always have address
<B>0.0.0.0</B>).
<P>
If
<I>satot</I>
encounters an unknown protocol code, e.g. 77,
it yields output using a prefix
showing the code numerically, e.g. ``unk77''.
This form is
<I>not</I>
recognized by
<I>ttosa</I>.
<P>
The
<I>srclen</I>
parameter of
<I>ttosa</I>
specifies the length of the string pointed to by
<I>src</I>;
it is an error for there to be anything else
(e.g., a terminating NUL) within that length.
As a convenience for cases where an entire NUL-terminated string is
to be converted,
a
<I>srclen</I>
value of
<B>0</B>
is taken to mean
<B>strlen(src)</B>.
<P>
The
<I>dstlen</I>
parameter of
<I>satot</I>
specifies the size of the
<I>dst</I>
parameter;
under no circumstances are more than
<I>dstlen</I>
bytes written to
<I>dst</I>.
A result which will not fit is truncated.
<I>Dstlen</I>
can be zero, in which case
<I>dst</I>
need not be valid and no result is written,
but the return value is unaffected;
in all other cases, the (possibly truncated) result is NUL-terminated.
The
<B>&lt;<A HREF="file:/usr/include/freeswan.h">freeswan.h</A>&gt;</B>
header file defines a constant,
<B>SATOT_BUF</B>,
which is the size of a buffer just large enough for worst-case results.
<P>
The
<I>format</I>
parameter of
<I>satot</I>
specifies what format is to be used for the conversion.
The value
<B>0</B>
(not the ASCII character
<B>'0'</B>,
but a zero value)
specifies a reasonable default
(currently
lowercase protocol prefix, lowercase hexadecimal SPI,
dotted-decimal or colon-hex address).
The value
<B>'f'</B>
is similar except that the SPI is padded with
<B>0</B>s
to a fixed 32-bit width, to ease aligning displayed tables.
<P>
<I>Ttosa</I>
returns
<B>NULL</B>
for success and
a pointer to a string-literal error message for failure;
see DIAGNOSTICS.
<I>Satot</I>
returns
<B>0</B>
for a failure, and otherwise
always returns the size of buffer which would
be needed to
accommodate the full conversion result, including terminating NUL;
it is the caller's responsibility to check this against the size of
the provided buffer to determine whether truncation has occurred.
<P>
There is also, temporarily, support for some obsolete
forms of SA specifier which lack the address-family indicator.
<A NAME="lbAE">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="ipsec_ttoul.3.html">ipsec_ttoul</A>(3), <A HREF="ipsec_ttoaddr.3.html">ipsec_ttoaddr</A>(3), <A HREF="ipsec_samesaid.3.html">ipsec_samesaid</A>(3), <A HREF="inet.3.html">inet</A>(3)
<A NAME="lbAF">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>DIAGNOSTICS</H2>
Fatal errors in
<I>ttosa</I>
are:
empty input;
input too small to be a legal SA specifier;
no
<B>@</B>
in input;
unknown protocol prefix;
conversion error in
<I>ttoul</I>
or
<I>ttoaddr</I>.
<P>
Fatal errors in
<I>satot</I>
are:
unknown format.
<A NAME="lbAG">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>HISTORY</H2>
Written for the FreeS/WAN project by Henry Spencer.
<A NAME="lbAH">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>BUGS</H2>
The restriction of text-to-binary error reports to literal strings
(so that callers don't need to worry about freeing them or copying them)
does limit the precision of error reporting.
<P>
The text-to-binary error-reporting convention lends itself
to slightly obscure code,
because many readers will not think of NULL as signifying success.
A good way to make it clearer is to write something like:
<P>
<DL COMPACT><DT><DD>
<PRE>
<B>const char *error;</B>
<B>error = ttosa( /* ... */ );</B>
<B>if (error != NULL) {</B>
<B> /* something went wrong */</B>
</PRE>
</DL>
<P>
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<DT><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAE">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAF">DIAGNOSTICS</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAG">HISTORY</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAH">BUGS</A><DD>
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