`npm-qnet-compat.so`

Native QNX Neutrino network manager -- backward-compatible version

This manager is going to be deprecated in future editions. It's currently included because it's compatible with QNX Neutrino 6.2.

Syntax:

io-net ... -p qnet [option[,option]...]

Options:

Use commas (,) to separate the options (not spaces).

align_fault=enX

Overwrite Qnet's misaligned-access detection. The value of X is one of:

1: Don't allow misaligned access.
-1: Allow misaligned access.

bind=en[X]|ip[X]

Encapsulate the Qnet packet into an ip or ethernet packet. By default, Qnet uses bind=en. If you specify a full interface name (e.g. bind=en0), then only that interface is used.

host=hostname

Change the hostname of the machine.

mapany=map_uid

Map any incoming user ID to map_uid and map its group ID to the group ID of map_uid.

maproot=map_uid

If the incoming user ID is 0, map it to map_uid and map its group ID to the group ID of map_uid.

mount=directory[:[.]domain]

A network directory. The default directory is /net. The default domain is either the hostname domain, if it has one, or the directory with the slashes changed to dots and reversed. For example, /net/outside/canada has a domain of canada.outside.net. The first mount is the default directory and domain that the local hostname will resolve to.

padding=n

Add n padding bytes between the link layer header and the Qnet packet header, to make the packet (and its payload) aligned. All nodes in the network running npm-qnet-compat.so must specify the same option argument in order to communicate. Default is no padding (padding=0).

resolve=resolver[:resolver_parameter]

Add to the resolver list for mountpoints that follow.

The following values for resolver are built into the network manager:

ndp -- Node Discovery Protocol for broadcasting name resolution requests on the LAN (similar to the TCP/IP ARP protocol). This is the default.
dns -- Take the node name, add a dot (.) followed by the node domain, and send the result to the TCP/IP gethostbyname() function.
file -- The optional resolver_parameter is the name of the file to use; the default is /etc/qnet_hosts. The format of the file is:
```
 #comment   ... This is a comment line
host.domain     addr1[,addr2]
 ......
 
```
The host.domain represents a QNET FQDN. The addr1 (and optional addr2) are the interface addresses for the FQDN. For bind=en QNET, the format of an address is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (the MAC address); for bind=ip QNET, the format of an address is a.b.c.d in IP dotted notation.

If you specify something else for resolver, Qnet attempts to load nr-resolver.so. The default name resolver is ndp. For queries how to create nr-resolver.so, please contact QNX support.

Description:

The npm-qnet-compat.so interface implements native QNX Neutrino networking. It's the original Qnet stack.

If you want to use this version of Qnet, make /lib/dll/npm-qnet.so a symbolic link to npm-qnet-compat.so. By default, npm-qnet.so is a symbolic link to npm-qnet-l4_lite.so.

When you specify two or more resolve= options in a series, the resolvers form a list of lookups for the directory specified in the subsequent mount= options.

You may notice that the list of resolvers is terminated by a mount= option. Any resolve= options placed after a mount= option form a new list -- they don't add to the previous list.

For example, the following line:

resolve=a,resolve=b,mount=x,mount=y,resolve=c,mount=z

specifies that:

mount=x has resolvers a and b
mount=y also has resolvers a and b
mount=z has only resolver c.

Files:

/dev/io-net: The directory where, by default, drivers and protocol modules add entries. For more information, the documentation for io-net.
/etc/system/config/useqnet: If this file exists, your system is using the default startup files, and io-net is running when your system starts up, the system automatically loads the Qnet module that /lib/dll/npm-qnet.so points to (npm-qnet-l4_lite.so by default). For more information, see the Controlling How Neutrino Starts chapter of the Neutrino User's Guide.

Caveats:

Qnet doesn't support networking processors of different endianness. If you need cross-endian file access, consider using NFS.

Don't use the options bind=en and resolve=dns together; that combination is invalid.

QNX Developer Support