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Takes care of all needed repetitive low-level initialization and allows you to quickly create the following types of sockets: * TCP server * TCP client * UDP unicast producer * UDP unicast consumer * UDP multicast producer * UDP multicast consumer * CAN socket (Linux only) CLI programs: * broadcast-hear - tests for incoming unicast/multicast traffic; * broadcast-roar - continuously sends user-specified unicast/multicast messages; * recast - converts unicast to multicast (and vice-versa) packets; * cancom - communicate over CAN bus (generate/send/receive messages, ping other nodes).

...It can be used for: * Monitoring and warning of failures of reachability in network attached devices * Monitoring disk usage/cpu utilization/network utilization of configured devices * Receiving alerts of equipment failures from configured devices * Recording alerts, response times, etc into a database ### More complex tasks * send and receive custom ICMP packets * query the Domain Name System (DNS) * access UDP sockets * probe and use some selected SUN RPCs * send and receive SNMP messages (SNMPv1, SNMPv2C, SNMPv3) * write special purpose SNMP agents in Tcl * parse and access SNMP MIB definitions * schedule jobs that are to be done regularly * realize event driven programming on network maps

Unix domain sockets are a filesystem based IPC mechanism similar to IP sockets, except that they can only be used by processes on the same system. This package provides a wrapper to use them from Tcl scripts.

TkCon is an enhanced interactive console for developing in Tcl. It also has the ability to connect to other Tk send-enabled languages, as well as generically to sockets.