docs: turn the root README into a project landing page
Reduce the root README to project discovery and navigation: what irtt-rs is, its relationship to upstream IRTT (including a factual capability comparison checked against upstream v0.9.2), installation, a short quick start, and links out to detailed documentation. Detailed CLI behavior, output/measurement semantics, continuous-mode memory guidance, and server bind/session/negotiation semantics move into new manpage-shaped docs under docs/ (irtt-rs, irtt-client, irtt-tui, irtt-server), rewritten as operational guidance rather than copied verbatim from the old README sections they replace.
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# irtt-server
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## NAME
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irtt-server - IRTT-compatible UDP server
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## SYNOPSIS
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`irtt-server` [`--bind` *ADDR*]... [*OPTIONS*]
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`irtt-rs server` [`--bind` *ADDR*]... [*OPTIONS*]
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## DESCRIPTION
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`irtt-server` answers IRTT echo requests over UDP. It is thin orchestration
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over the reusable `irtt-server` library: one current-thread Tokio runtime,
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one or more listeners, and the library's own session/policy logic.
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Run with no arguments for the ordinary case:
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```sh
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irtt-server
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```
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With no `--bind`, the server listens on the standard IRTT port (2112) on the
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wildcard address for both address families, in this fixed order:
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1. `[::]:2112`
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2. `0.0.0.0:2112`
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This is available wherever the platform supports safe wildcard reply-source
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selection (see [Wildcard binds](#wildcard-binds) below). Any explicit
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`--bind` **replaces** this default pair entirely rather than adding to it —
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`irtt-server --bind 127.0.0.1:2112` binds only that one address.
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If one of the two default addresses cannot be bound because its address
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family itself has no local support at all — IPv6 disabled on an otherwise
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IPv4-capable host, for example — the server falls back to serving just the
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other one instead of failing outright, and says so on startup. Any other
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reason a default listener fails — the port already in use, permission
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denied, no safe wildcard reply-source path — is not a family-support
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problem and is not silently worked around; the invocation fails as it would
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for an explicit `--bind`. This fallback applies only to the implicit default
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pair: an explicit `--bind` list always keeps the ordinary all-or-nothing
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behavior described below.
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## OPTIONS
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### `--bind ADDR`
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Local UDP address to bind, as `ADDR:PORT`, for example `127.0.0.1:2112` or
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`[::1]:2112`. Host names are not resolved. Repeatable.
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Repeat the option to serve several addresses from one process, in the order
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given. Every listener applies the same policy options, but each keeps its
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own sessions and tokens, so a session belongs to the address it was opened
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on. Binding is all-or-nothing: if any address cannot be bound, none are
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served.
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A port of `0` selects an unused port per listener, so two such binds get two
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different ports.
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With no `--bind` at all, see [Default bind](#default-bind) above.
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### `--hmac KEY`
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HMAC key, taken as the UTF-8 bytes of this argument. With a key configured,
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every request must carry a valid MAC and every reply is authenticated;
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without one, authenticated requests are dropped. The key is visible in the
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process arguments.
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### `--max-sessions COUNT`
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Maximum number of simultaneously live sessions **per listener**, not per
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process. Once a listener's table is full, a session-creating open to it is
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dropped silently; nothing is evicted. Zero refuses every session-creating
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open.
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### `--max-packet-length BYTES`
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Maximum echo datagram size a session may negotiate, in bytes. A longer
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requested length is reduced during negotiation, an open whose mandatory
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field block would not fit is refused, and inbound echo requests are admitted
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against the same limit. This is a resource bound, not an MTU.
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### `--min-interval DURATION`
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Floor on the send interval a session may negotiate. The negotiated interval
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is still capped at a quarter of the idle timeout afterwards, so a
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`--min-interval` above that cap is not the value actually negotiated.
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A session's reply allowance refills at the shorter of this configured floor
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and the interval it actually negotiated. Ordinarily that is the configured
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floor itself, since the negotiated interval is normally at least as long —
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a 10ms `--min-interval` against a 1s negotiated interval refills every
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10ms. The two differ only when the idle-timeout cap above pulled the
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negotiated interval below the configured floor, in which case the shorter,
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negotiated value is what the allowance actually refills at: a server must
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not enforce a cadence it did not advertise to the client. Use `0` for no
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time-based throttling.
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### `--burst COUNT`
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Echo replies one session may have answered before its allowance has to
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refill. Use `0` for no allowance at all, which rate-limits every echo
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request whatever the interval is.
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### `--idle-timeout DURATION`
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Release a session after this long without a served or rate-limited echo
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request. The deadline runs from the open, and release is silent. Use `0` to
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expire a session at the next evaluation; it is not a way to disable expiry.
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### `--max-duration DURATION`
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Maximum test duration a session may negotiate. A longer request is reduced
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to it, and a continuous request is answered with it. Omit this flag for no
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maximum; a maximum of zero cannot be expressed, because a negotiated
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duration of zero means continuous.
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### `--timestamp-allowance MODE`
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How many timestamps this server will provide: `dual` (default, honors a
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request for send, receive, both, or midpoint timestamps), `single`
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(provides at most one timestamp instant; a request for both is negotiated to
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midpoint), or `none` (no timestamps at all). The requested clock source is
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never changed, only which instants are reported, so a single instant is
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still reported once per requested clock.
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### `--no-dscp`
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Refuse to provide requested traffic-class marking. Any requested DSCP is
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negotiated to zero, so the client is told its echo replies will be unmarked,
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and they are sent unmarked. The session is not refused.
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Durations everywhere in this command accept an integer followed by a unit:
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`ms`, `s`, or `m`.
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## OUTPUT
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Each bound endpoint is printed on startup, once every listener is up, which
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also resolves a port of `0`:
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```
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irtt-server: listening on [::]:2112
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irtt-server: listening on 0.0.0.0:2112
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```
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`Ctrl-C` stops the server gracefully.
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## MULTIPLE LISTENERS
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Every invocation runs through the same multi-listener path, so one address —
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whether from the default pair or a single explicit `--bind` — is an ordinary
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set of one rather than a separate mode. The policy options above apply to
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every listener, but listeners are otherwise independent: each has its own
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sessions and tokens, and `--max-sessions` bounds each listener rather than
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the process. If any listener fails while running, the others are shut down
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with it rather than leaving a service configured for two families answering
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on one.
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Wildcard IPv4 and IPv6 listeners may share one port, as the default pair
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does.
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## SERVER FILL
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Echo replies fill their payload according to the negotiated `ServerFill`
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mode, which a client requests with `irtt-client`'s `--sfill` (see
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`irtt-client(1)`):
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- `none`: zero-filled.
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- `rand`: random bytes.
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- `pattern:HEX`: the given repeating hexadecimal pattern.
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Every valid descriptor is honored. A descriptor the server cannot parse, and
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a client that expresses no fill preference at all, both get the default
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`pattern:69727474`, i.e. the repeating bytes `69 72 74 74` (`irtt`).
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## WILDCARD BINDS
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An explicit interface address works on every supported system. A wildcard
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bind such as `0.0.0.0:2112` or `[::]:2112` reads each request's local
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destination from packet metadata and sends that request's reply from the
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same address, so a client on a multi-homed host is answered from the
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endpoint it actually contacted.
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That reply-source selection is implemented on **Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD**.
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Elsewhere, a wildcard bind is refused at construction rather than served
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from a routing-table-selected source address a client would discard — this
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also applies to the zero-argument default, which will fail with a clear
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error asking for an explicit `--bind` on such a platform. This correctness
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rule is deliberate and is not weakened by the zero-argument default.
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## EXAMPLES
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Run with the default wildcard listeners on the standard port:
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```sh
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irtt-server
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```
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Bind a single explicit address:
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```sh
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irtt-server --bind 127.0.0.1:2112
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```
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Through the `irtt-rs` dispatcher:
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```sh
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irtt-rs server --bind 192.0.2.10:2112
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```
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Serve two explicit addresses from one process:
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```sh
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irtt-server \
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--bind 0.0.0.0:2112 \
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--bind [::]:2112
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```
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Apply session policy:
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```sh
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irtt-server \
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--bind 192.0.2.10:2112 \
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--max-sessions 512 \
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--idle-timeout 30s
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```
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Restrict optional capabilities:
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```sh
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irtt-server \
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--bind 192.0.2.10:2112 \
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--timestamp-allowance single \
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--no-dscp
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```
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Require authentication:
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```sh
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irtt-server --bind 192.0.2.10:2112 --hmac secret
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```
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## EXIT STATUS
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`0` on a clean shutdown (`Ctrl-C`), nonzero if binding fails or a listener
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fails while running.
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## LIMITATIONS
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- No hostname resolution, interface expansion, daemonization, or
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configuration file — binds are explicit addresses only.
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- Wildcard reply-source selection is unavailable outside Linux, macOS, and
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FreeBSD; such platforms must bind explicit addresses.
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## SEE ALSO
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`irtt-client(1)`, `irtt-tui(1)`, `irtt-rs(1)`, and `irtt-server --help` for
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the full option list.
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