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Network services

The connection server

The connection server is a standing process or daemon that runs on all client machines. It is used to establish connections for all network services that communicate over TLI connection-oriented and dialup connections. The connection server is started automatically during initialization when the system goes to multi-user mode. It receives requests for network services from client machine applications, establishes connections to the server-machine ports associated with the requested services, and passes the connections back to the application. Before passing a connection to an application, the connection server may invoke an authentication scheme.

Connection server components

The following are the components an application programmer will be concerned with:

The Service Access Facility's administrative command pmadm is used to install, remove, or change authentication schemes on the server machine. The command is described on the pmadm(1M) manual page and in ``Administering port services''.

Details of connection server administration that are not covered in this topic can be found in ``Administering the connection server''.


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