genl(8) — Linux manual page
GENL(8) Linux GENL(8)
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.
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.
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>.
COLOPHON
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
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⟨https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git⟩ on
2024-06-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
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