Objective: On Linux, create /dev/tcp character device if it’s missing or if it’s not enabled by default.
The /dev/tcp file is a character device on Linux with major, minor IDs of 30 and 36. To create the device on Linux, run the following command on a shell terminal as root.
| 1 | # mknod /dev/tcp c 30 36 | 
Once the device has been created, verify that the device has been created using ls.
| 1 2 | # ls -l /dev/tcp crw-r--r-- 1 root root 30, 36 Sep  7 16:39 /dev/tcp | 
The Linux Device List contains the list of major, minor numbers of supported devices on Linux.

