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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man1/ether_reflect.1 b/static/freebsd/man1/ether_reflect.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9e946612 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man1/ether_reflect.1 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2008 George V. Neville-Neil +.\" 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. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR 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 AUTHOR 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 December 23, 2008 +.Dt ETHER_REFLECT 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ether_reflect +.Nd "reflect ethernet packets" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl a Ar ethernet address +.Op Fl e Ar ethertype +.Op Fl i Ar interface +.Op Fl t Ar timeout +.Op Fl p +.Op Fl d +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +command implements a simple ethernet packet reflector using the +.Xr pcap 3 +library and +.Xr bpf 4 , +the Berkeley Packet Filter. +The program is useful primarily to test the low level round trip time +of packets through an Ethernet interface and/or a switch. +Network protocols, such as IP, and the network stack in general are never +invoked, only the device driver that implements the particular interface +is executed. +As the +.Nm +command uses the +.Xr bpf 4 +device the user must have root privileges to execute this program. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d Ar argument" +.It Fl a Ar address +Instead of reversing the ethernet destination and source addresses +supply a different destination ethernet address for each packet +received. +.It Fl e Ar ether type +Use a different ethertype than the default, 0x8822, which is the IEEE +ether type for driver testing. +.It Fl i Ar interface +Network interface, which can be found with ifconfig(1). +.It Fl t Ar timeout +The time, in milliseconds, to wait for a packet. +Lower times decrease latency at the cost of CPU. +.It Fl p +Set the device into promiscuous mode before testing. +This is not usually necessary. +.It Fl d +Debug output. +Print various small pieces of debug information. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following is an example of a typical usage +of the +.Nm +command: +.Pp +.Dl "ether_reflect -i em0 -t 1" +.Pp +Reflect all test packets, those with an ether type of 0x8822, which +are seen on ineterface em0. +The timeout is 1 millisecond. +.Pp +.Dl "ether_reflect -i em0 -a 00:00:00:aa:bb:cc -t 1" +.Pp +Rewrite the destination address in each packet to 00:00:00:aa:bb:cc +before reflecting the packet. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr tcpdump 1 , +.Xr pcap 3 , +.Xr bpf 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +program first appeared in +.Fx 8.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +This +manual page was written by +.An George V. Neville-Neil Aq Mt gnn@FreeBSD.org . +.Sh BUGS +Should be reported to the author or to +.Aq Mt net@FreeBSD.org . |
