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genl

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generic netlink utility frontend

Administration and privileged commands5 optionsiproute2 6.15.0-1
genl [ -s[tatistics] ] [ -d[etails] ] [ -r[aw] ] OBJECT genl { -V[ersion] | -h[elp] } OBJECT := { ctrl CTRL_OPTS } CTRL_OPTS := { help | list | monitor | get PARMS } PARMS := { name NAME | id ID }

Options

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-h-help

Show summary of options.

-V-Version

Show version of program.

-s-stats-statistics

Show object statistics.

-d-details

Show object details.

-r-raw

Dump raw output only.

DESCRIPTION

The genl utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library. Although it's designed to support multiple OBJECTs, for now only the ctrl object is available, which is used to query the generic netlink controller.

The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways:

This command just prints a help text for the ctrl object.
Show the registered netlink users.
Listen for generic netlink notifications.
Query the controller for a given user, identified either by name or id.

AUTHOR

genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim hadi@cyberus.ca.

This manual page was written by Petr Sabata contyk@redhat.com.

See also

ip(8)