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| diff --git a/usr.sbin/ifmcstat/ifmcstat.8 b/usr.sbin/ifmcstat/ifmcstat.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..aa148e802ea7 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/ifmcstat/ifmcstat.8 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +.\"	$KAME: ifmcstat.8,v 1.6 2002/10/31 04:23:43 suz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Bruce Simpson. +.\" Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 WIDE Project. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the project nor the names of its contributors +.\"    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\"    without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PROJECT AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd May 27, 2009 +.Dt IFMCSTAT 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ifmcstat +.Nd dump multicast group management statistics per interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl i Ar interface +.Op Fl f Ar address-family +.Op Fl v +.Op Fl K +.Op Fl M Ar core +.Op Fl N Ar system +.\" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +command dumps multicast group information from the kernel. +.Pp +The following options are supported: +.Bl -tag -width Fl +.It Fl i Ar interface +specifies the interface to be displayed. +.It Fl f Ar address-family +specifies the address family to be displayed; +.Ar inet , +.Ar inet6 +and +.Ar link +are supported. +.It Fl v +specifies that link-layer memberships should be printed; +they are suppressed by default. +It may not be specified for +.Fl f Ar link . +Source lists for each group will also be printed. +.Pp +If specified twice, and +.Xr kvm 3 +is in use, the control plane timers for each interface +and the source list counters for each group +will also be printed. +.El +.Pp +The following options are only available if +.Nm +has been built with support for +.Xr kvm 3 : +.Bl -tag -width Fl +.It Fl K +attempts to use +.Xr kvm 3 +to retrieve the multicast group information. +.It Fl M Ar core +extracts values associated with the name list from the specified core, +instead of the default +.Pa /dev/kmem . +.It Fl N Ar system +extracts the name list from the specified kernel instead of the +default, which is the kernel image the system has booted from. +.El +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +.Nm +will always print the embedded scope IDs of IPv6 multicast group +memberships. +This is because memberships are always scoped to an interface. +.Pp +When run with the +.Fl v +option, +.Nm +may print multicast MAC addresses twice if they are +referenced by a layer 3 protocol. +.Pp +When run with +.Xr kvm 3 +support, +the names of all interfaces configured in the system will be +printed in the first column of output, even if no multicast +group memberships are present on those interfaces. +The output may also be slightly different, as the kernel +data structures are being traversed with minimal post-processing +of the output. +.Pp +When built without +.Xr kvm 3 +support, the information displayed by +.Nm +is more limited. +This support is recommended for debugging purposes. +It requires super-user privilege if used to inspect a running kernel. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr netstat 1 , +.Xr getifaddrs 3 , +.Xr getifmaddrs 3 , +.Xr kvm 3 | 
