set-tcp-md5-sig

Arguments: socket address key &key (external-format :default)

This function only works on Linux. If executed on a non-Linux host, an error will be generated.

This function provides an interface to the TCP_MD5SIG (RFC2385) socket option. It sets the key to be used for TCP connections from address. This function can be called multiple times to set up keys for different addresses.

socket' must be a passive stream socket (as created by (make-socket :connect :passive ...)). See make-socket.

address must be an IP address.

key must be a string or octet array.

If key is a string, external-format can supplied to specify a non-default external format for the string. The string will not be null-terminated.

See socket.htm.

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