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GENL(8) Linux GENL(8)
genl - generic netlink utility frontend
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 }
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.
ctrl
The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways:
help This command just prints a help text for the ctrl object.
list Show the registered netlink users.
monitor
Listen for generic netlink notifications.
get Query the controller for a given user, identified either by
name or id.
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.
ip(8)
genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.
This page is part of the iproute2 (utilities for controlling TCP/IP
networking and traffic) project. Information about the project can
be found at
⟨http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@osdl.org. This page was obtained
from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git⟩
on 2017-07-05. If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML
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