tcpmux/tcp

rfc1078.txt explains that this service is supposed to provide a way of immediately connecting a service with the appropriate port.

Protocol

Notes: The only machines that seem to have this daemon running by default is SGI machines. OSF/1, SVR3, VAX/VMS machines seem not to run this. On SGI machines this runs as an internal function, question is, is it possible to provide the service as an external daemon, with little overhead?

I implemented tcpmux capability in athena-inetd.5.30 for linux

RFCS
Reference Person
Mark Lottor mkl@nw.com