NAME¶

genl - generic netlink utility frontend

SYNOPSIS¶

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 }

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.

OPTIONS¶

genl supports the following options.

-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.

SEE ALSO¶

ip(8)

AUTHOR¶

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

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