Networking Utilities

QNX SDP8.0High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's GuideAPIArchitecture

The following components used by the io-sock networking stack and manager are ported from FreeBSD. For more information about them, see the Utilities Reference or FreeBSD documentation:

QNX OS provides the ptpd2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) daemon (see the ptpd2 entry in the Utilities Reference).

QNX OS provides Network Time Protocol (NTP), which provides the following utilities. Use the --version option to determine the current version number (e.g., ntpd --version; ntpdate uses -v). For more information, go to the NTP documentation:

The unbound DNS resolver utility that QNX OS provides is ported from NLnet Labs (see https://unbound.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/manpages/unbound.html). It provides functionality that in previous releases was provided by the BIND suite, which is no longer included.

The DHCP client for QNX SDP 8.0 is dhcpcd (see its entry in the Utilities Reference).

The following components support io-sock. For information about them, go to the Utilities Reference:

An io-sock-compatible version of libcurl is provided. For documentation, see http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html (curl tool) and http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ (API).

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