freebsd-src/usr.bin/genl/genl.1
Baptiste Daroussin e19b2ef976 genl: add a monitor subcommand
usage:
$ genl monitor <family> <multicats group>

this subcommand allows to monitor the message from a multicast group
of a given family when received.

If it knows how to parse the messages received it will dump the decoded
version, otherwise it will just inform a new message has been received

So far it only knows how to parse nlctrl notify messages, but the plan
to allow to make the parsing extensible via lua scripts

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40372
2023-10-05 12:53:47 +02:00

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.Dd Oct 5, 2023
.Dt GENL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm genl
.Nd "generic netlink"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Pp
.Nm Cm list
.Pp
.Nm Cm monitor Ao family Ac Ao multicast group Ac
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is design to provide access to the user to generic netlink
protocols.
.Pp
The following commands are available:
.Bl -tag -ident
.It Cm list Po default Pc
Lists all available generic netlink protocols, and presents its details:
.Bl -tag -width "multicast groups"
.It operations
Id of the operation if any and associated capabilities
.It multicast groups
If of the available multicast group if any and it associated name
.El
.It Cm monitor Ao family Ac Ao multicast group Ac
Connect to the
.Ar family
protocol and subscribe to the
.Ar mulicast group
then print the received messages in a readable format if the protocol is known.
So far only
.Qq nlctrl
is known.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr genetlink 4 ,
.Xr netlink 4