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33.\" Author: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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35.\" $FreeBSD$
36.\" $Whistle: netgraph.3,v 1.7 1999/01/25 07:14:06 archie Exp $
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38.Dd January 19, 1999
39.Dt NETGRAPH 3
40.Os FreeBSD 3
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm NgMkSockNode ,
43.Nm NgNameNode ,
44.Nm NgSendMsg ,
45.Nm NgRecvMsg ,
46.Nm NgSendData ,
47.Nm NgRecvData ,
48.Nm NgSetDebug ,
49.Nm NgSetErrLog
50.Nd netgraph user library
51.Sh SYNOPSIS
52.Fd #include <netgraph.h>
53.Ft int
54.Fn NgMkSockNode "const char *name" "int *csp" "int *dsp"
55.Ft int
56.Fn NgNameNode "int cs" "const char *path" "const char *fmt" "..."
57.Ft int
58.Fn NgSendMsg "int cs" "const char *path" "int cookie" "int cmd" "const void *arg" "size_t arglen"
59.Ft int
60.Fn NgSendAsciiMsg "int cs" "const char *path" "const char *fmt" "..."
61.Ft int
62.Fn NgSendMsgReply "int cs" "const char *path" "struct ng_mesg *msg" "const void *arg" "size_t arglen"
63.Ft int
64.Fn NgRecvMsg "int cs" "struct ng_mesg *rep" "size_t replen" "char *path"
65.Ft int
66.Fn NgRecvAsciiMsg "int cs" "struct ng_mesg *rep" "size_t replen" "char *path"
67.Ft int
68.Fn NgSendData "int ds" "const char *hook" "const u_char *buf" "size_t len"
69.Ft int
70.Fn NgRecvData "int ds" "u_char *buf" "size_t len" "char *hook"
71.Ft int
72.Fn NgSetDebug "int level"
73.Ft void
74.Fn NgSetErrLog "void (*log)(const char *fmt, ...)" "void (*logx)(const char *fmt, ...)"
75.Sh DESCRIPTION
76These functions facilitate user-mode program participation in the kernel
77.Xr netgraph 4
78graph-based networking system, by utilizing the netgraph
79.Em socket
80node type (see
81.Xr ng_socket 8 ) .
82.Pp
83.Fn NgMkSockNode
84should be called first, to create a new
85.Em socket
86type netgraph node with associated control and data sockets.  If
87.Fa name
88is non-NULL, the node will have that global name assigned to it.
89.Fa "*csp"
90and
91.Fa "*dsp"
92will be set to the newly opened control and data sockets
93associated with the node; either
94.Fa "csp"
95or
96.Fa "dsp"
97may be NULL if only one socket is desired.
98.Fn NgMkSockNode
99loads the socket node type KLD if it's not already loaded.
100.Pp
101.Fn NgNameNode
102assigns a global name to the node addressed by
103.Fa path .
104.Pp
105.Fn NgSendMsg
106sends a binary control message from the socket node associated
107with control socket
108.Fa cs
109to the node addressed by
110.Fa path .
111The
112.Fa cookie
113indicates how to interpret
114.Fa cmd ,
115which indicates a specific command.
116Extra argument data (if any) is specified by
117.Fa arg
118and
119.Fa arglen .
120The
121.Fa cookie ,
122.Fa cmd ,
123and argument data are defined by the header file corresponding
124to the type of the node being addressed.
125.Pp
126Use
127.Fn NgSendMsgReply
128to send reply to a previously received control message.
129The original message header should be pointed to by
130.Fa msg .
131.Pp
132.Fn NgSendAsciiMsg
133performs the same function as
134.Fn NgSendMsg ,
135but adds support for
136.Tn ASCII
137encoding of control messages.
138.Fn NgSendAsciiMsg
139formats its input a la
140.Xr printf 3
141and then sends the resulting
142.Tn ASCII
143string to the node in a
144.Dv NGM_ASCII2BINARY
145control message.  The node returns a binary version of the
146message, which is then sent back to the node just as with
147.Fn NgSendMsg .
148Note that
149.Tn ASCII
150conversion may not be supported by all node types.
151.Pp
152.Fn NgRecvMsg
153reads the next control message received by the node associated with
154control socket
155.Fa cs .
156The message and any extra argument data must fit in
157.Fa replen
158bytes.
159If
160.Fa "path"
161is non-NULL, it must point to a buffer of at least
162.Dv "NG_PATHLEN + 1"
163bytes, which will be filled in (and NUL terminated) with the path to
164the node from which the message was received.
165.Pp
166.Fn NgRecvAsciiMsg
167works exactly like
168.Fn NgRecvMsg ,
169except that after the message is received, any binary arguments
170are converted to
171.Tn ASCII
172by sending a
173.Dv NGM_BINARY2ASCII
174request back to the originating node.  The result is the same as
175.Fn NgRecvAsciiMsg ,
176with the exception that the reply arguments field will contain
177a NUL-terminated
178.Tn ASCII
179version of the arguments (and the reply
180header argument length field will be adjusted).
181.Pp
182.Fn NgSendData
183writes a data packet out on the specified hook of the node corresponding
184to data socket
185.Fa ds .
186The node must already be connected to some other node via that hook.
187.Pp
188.Fn NgRecvData
189reads the next data packet (of up to
190.Fa len
191bytes) received by the node corresponding to data socket
192.Fa ds
193and stores it in
194.Fa buf ,
195which must be large enough to hold the entire packet.  If
196.Fa "hook"
197is non-NULL, it must point to a buffer of at least
198.Dv "NG_HOOKLEN + 1"
199bytes, which will be filled in (and NUL terminated) with the name of
200the hook on which the data was received.
201.Pp
202.Fn NgSetDebug
203and
204.Fn NgSetErrLog
205are used for debugging.
206.Fn NgSetDebug
207sets the debug level (if non-negative), and returns the old setting.
208Higher debug levels result in more verbosity.  The default is zero.
209All debug and error messages are logged via the functions
210specified in the most recent call to
211.Fn NgSetErrLog .
212The default logging functions are
213.Xr vwarn 3
214and
215.Xr vwarnx 3 .
216.Pp
217At debug level 3, the library attempts to display control message arguments
218in
219.Tn ASCII
220format; however, this results in additional messages being
221sent which may interfere with debugging.  At even higher levels,
222even these additional messagages will be displayed, etc.
223.Pp
224Note that
225.Xr select 2
226can be used on the data and the control sockets to detect the presence of
227incoming data and control messages, respectively.
228Data and control packets are always written and read atomically, i.e.,
229in one whole piece.
230.Pp
231User mode programs must be linked with the
232.Dv -lnetgraph
233flag to link in this library.
234.Sh INITIALIZATION
235To enable Netgraph in your kernel, either your kernel must be
236compiled with
237.Dq options NETGRAPH
238in the kernel configuration
239file, or else the
240.Xr netgraph 4
241and
242.Xr ng_socket 8
243KLD modules must have been loaded via
244.Xr kldload 8 .
245.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
246All functions except
247.Fn NgSetDebug
248and
249.Fn NgSetErrLog
250return -1 if there was an error and set errno accordingly.
251.Pp
252For
253.Fn NgSendAsciiMsg
254and
255.Fn NgRecvAsciiMsg ,
256the following additional errors are possible:
257.Bl -tag -width Er
258.It Bq Er ENOSYS
259The node type does not know how to encode or decode the control message.
260.It Bq Er ERANGE
261The encoded or decoded arguments were too long for the supplied buffer.
262.It Bq Er ENOENT
263An unknown structure field was seen in an
264.Tn ASCII
265control message.
266.It Bq Er EALREADY
267The same structure field was specified twice in an
268.Tn ASCII
269control message.
270.It Bq Er EINVAL
271.Tn ASCII
272control message parse error or illegal value.
273.It Bq Er E2BIG
274ASCII control message array or fixed width string buffer overflow.
275.El
276.Sh SEE ALSO
277.Xr netgraph 4 ,
278.Xr kld 4 ,
279.Xr socket 2 ,
280.Xr select 2 ,
281.Xr warnx 3 ,
282.Xr ng_socket 8
283.Sh HISTORY
284The
285.Nm netgraph
286system was designed and first implemented at Whistle Communications, Inc. in
287a version of
288.Fx 2.2
289customized for the Whistle InterJet.
290.Sh AUTHORS
291.An Archie Cobbs Aq archie@whistle.com
292