NAME

genl — generic netlink

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The genl utility is design to provide access to the user to generic netlink protocols.

The following commands are available:

list (default)

Lists all available generic netlink protocols, and presents its details:

operations

Id of the operation if any and associated capabilities

multicast groups

Id of the available multicast group if any and it associated name

monitor ⟨family⟩ [multicast group]

Connect to the family protocol and subscribe to the mulicast group then print the received messages in a readable format if the protocol is known. So far only "nlctrl" and "nlsysevent" are known. If no multicast group are provided then all the groups are subsribed to.

SEE ALSO

genetlink(4), netlink(4)