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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2013-06-25 10:00:28 +0200
committerDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2013-06-25 10:00:28 +0200
commitea14716362e78d109490df9f345488d1c9a4a6c9 (patch)
tree0994627eb5e95399f842842ea57a27e12eda88fb
parentbedc03e69281508ffdb374085225b5ea516c4b13 (diff)
man: netsniff-ng: add section about netlink traffic debugging
Recently, the nlmon device driver got accepted [1], so that it's now possible to debug netlink traffic as well. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/273952 Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/netsniff-ng.8 b/netsniff-ng.8
index 60da8d7..0bc874b 100644
--- a/netsniff-ng.8
+++ b/netsniff-ng.8
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ scheduled move to slower medias). You can then use mergecap(1) to transform
all pcaps into a single large pcap. Thus, netsniff-ng then works multithreaded
eventually.
.PP
+netsniff-ng can also be used to debug netlink traffic. On newer kernels one
+needs to modprobe nlmon so that a ''netlink'' networking device appears that
+can be used as an input device for netsniff-ng.
+.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.SS -i <dev|pcap|->, -d <dev|pcap|->, --in <dev|pcap|->, --dev <dev|pcap|->