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78 lines
1.5 KiB
Groff
.TH GENL 8 "29 Oct 2015" "iproute2" "Linux"
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.SH NAME
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genl \- generic netlink utility frontend
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.in +8
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.ti -8
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.BR genl " [ " -s [ tatistics "] ] [ " -d [ etails "] ] [ " -r [ aw "] ] " OBJECT
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.ti -8
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.BR genl " { " -V [ ersion "] | " -h [ elp "] }"
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.ti -8
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.IR OBJECT " := { "
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.B ctrl
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.IR CTRL_OPTS " }"
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.ti -8
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.IR CTRL_OPTS " := { "
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.BR help " | " list " | " monitor " | " get
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.IR PARMS " }"
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.ti -8
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.IR PARMS " := { "
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.B name
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.IR NAME " | "
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.B id
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.IR ID " }"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B genl
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utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library. Although it's
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designed to support multiple
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.IR OBJECT s,
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for now only the
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.B ctrl
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object is available, which is used to query the generic netlink controller.
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.SS ctrl
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The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways:
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.TP
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.B help
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This command just prints a help text for the
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.B ctrl
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object.
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.TP
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.B list
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Show the registered netlink users.
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.TP
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.B monitor
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Listen for generic netlink notifications.
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.TP
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.B get
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Query the controller for a given user, identified either by
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.BR name " or " id .
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.SH OPTIONS
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genl supports the following options.
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.TP
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.B \-h, \-help
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Show summary of options.
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.TP
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.B \-V, \-Version
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Show version of program.
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.TP
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.B \-s, \-stats, \-statistics
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Show object statistics.
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.TP
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.B \-d, \-details
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Show object details.
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.TP
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.B \-r, \-raw
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Dump raw output only.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR ip (8)
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.br
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.SH AUTHOR
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genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
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.PP
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This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.
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