@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ int prefix_banner;
static void usage(void)
{
- fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ]\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ] [ FILE ]\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "LISTofOBJECTS := link | address | route | mroute | prefix |\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, " neigh | netconf\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "FILE := file FILENAME\n");
exit(-1);
}
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH IP\-MONITOR 8 "20 Dec 2011" "iproute2" "Linux"
+.TH IP\-MONITOR 8 "13 Dec 2012" "iproute2" "Linux"
.SH "NAME"
ip-monitor, rtmon \- state monitoring
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ ip-monitor, rtmon \- state monitoring
.ad l
.in +8
.ti -8
-.BR "ip monitor" " [ " all " |"
-.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ]"
+.BR "ip " " [ ip-OPTIONS ] " "monitor" " [ " all " |"
+.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ] [ file " FILENAME " ]
.sp
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -20,12 +20,13 @@ Namely, the
command is the first in the command line and then the object list follows:
.BR "ip monitor" " [ " all " |"
-.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ]"
+.IR LISTofOBJECTS " ] [ file " FILENAME " ]
.I OBJECT-LIST
is the list of object types that we want to monitor.
It may contain
-.BR link ", " address " and " route "."
+.BR link ", " address ", " route ", " mroute ", " prefix ", "
+.BR neigh " and " netconf "."
If no
.B file
argument is given,
@@ -34,7 +35,9 @@ opens RTNETLINK, listens on it and dumps state changes in the format
described in previous sections.
.P
-If a file name is given, it does not listen on RTNETLINK,
+If a
+.I FILENAME
+is given, it does not listen on RTNETLINK,
but opens the file containing RTNETLINK messages saved in binary format
and dumps them. Such a history file can be generated with the
.B rtmon
Sync with the current code. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> --- ip/ipmonitor.c | 5 ++++- man/man8/ip-monitor.8 | 15 +++++++++------ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)