Ident

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Ident is the Identification Protocol, as defined in RFC 1413. It is used to ask for the username in control of a particular TCP connection on the server machine. It is often used by IRC servers to get the user names associated with connecting clients.

1 Identification
- 1.1 Ports
- 1.2 l7-filter
2 See also

[edit] Identification

[edit] Ports

Ident servers usually run on TCP port 113.

[edit] l7-filter

l7-filter uses the ident pattern. This pattern is lightly tested. Since the protocol is so simple (the data that l7-filter looks for is a packet with only a number, a comma, and another number), it is possible that there are other protocols that it will match. However, no examples are known.