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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd April 26, 2004
28.Dt GGATEC 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm ggatec
32.Nd "GEOM Gate network client and control utility"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Cm create
36.Op Fl n
37.Op Fl v
38.Op Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
39.Op Fl p Ar port
40.Op Fl q Ar queue_size
41.Op Fl R Ar rcvbuf
42.Op Fl S Ar sndbuf
43.Op Fl s Ar sectorsize
44.Op Fl t Ar timeout
45.Op Fl u Ar unit
46.Ar host
47.Ar path
48.Nm
49.Cm rescue
50.Op Fl n
51.Op Fl v
52.Op Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
53.Op Fl p Ar port
54.Op Fl R Ar rcvbuf
55.Op Fl S Ar sndbuf
56.Fl u Ar unit
57.Ar host
58.Ar path
59.Nm
60.Cm destroy
61.Op Fl f
62.Fl u Ar unit
63.Nm
64.Cm list
65.Op Fl v
66.Op Fl u Ar unit
67.Sh DESCRIPTION
68The
69.Nm
70utility is a network client for GEOM Gate class.
71It is responsible for creation of
72.Nm ggate
73devices and forwarding I/O requests between
74.Nm geom_gate.ko
75kernel module and
76.Xr ggated 8
77network daemon.
78Available commands:
79.Bl -tag -width ".Cm destroy"
80.It Cm create
81Connect to given
82.Xr ggated 8
83daemon and create a
84.Nm ggate
85provider related to the given remote file or device.
86.It Cm rescue
87If
88.Nm
89process died/has been killed, you can save situation with this
90command, which creates new connection to the
91.Xr ggated 8
92daemon and will handle pending and future requests.
93.It Cm destroy
94Destroy the given
95.Nm ggate
96provider.
97.It Cm list
98List
99.Nm ggate
100providers.
101.El
102.Pp
103Available options:
104.Bl -tag -width ".Fl s Cm ro | wo | rw"
105.It Fl f
106Forcibly destroy
107.Nm ggate
108provider (cancels all pending requests).
109.It Fl n
110Do not use
111.Dv TCP_NODELAY
112option on TCP sockets.
113.It Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
114Specify permission to use when opening the file or device: read-only
115.Pq Cm ro ,
116write-only
117.Pq Cm wo ,
118or read-write
119.Pq Cm rw .
120Default is
121.Cm rw .
122.It Fl p Ar port
123Port to connect to on the remote host.
124Default is 3080.
125.It Fl q Ar queue_size
126Number of pending I/O requests that can be queued before they will
127start to be canceled.
128Default is 1024.
129.It Fl R Ar rcvbuf
130Size of receive buffer to use.
131Default is 131072 (128kB).
132.It Fl S Ar sndbuf
133Size of send buffer to use.
134Default is 131072 (128kB).
135.It Fl s Ar sectorsize
136Sector size for
137.Nm ggate
138provider.
139If not specified, it is taken from device, or set to 512 bytes for files.
140.It Fl t Ar timeout
141Number of seconds to wait before an I/O request will be canceled.
1420 means no timeout.
143Default is 0.
144.It Fl u Ar unit
145Unit number to use.
146.It Fl v
147Do not fork, run in foreground and print debug informations on standard
148output.
149.It Ar host
150Remote host to connect to.
151.It Ar path
152Path to a regular file or device.
153.El
154.Sh EXIT STATUS
155Exit status is 0 on success, or 1 if the command fails.
156To get details about the failure,
157.Nm
158should be called with the
159.Fl v
160option.
161.Sh EXAMPLES
162Make use of CD-ROM device from remote host.
163.Bd -literal -offset indent
164server# cat /etc/gg.exports
165client RO /dev/acd0
166server# ggated
167
168client# ggatec create -o ro server /dev/acd0
169ggate0
170client# mount_cd9660 /dev/ggate0 /cdrom
171.Ed
172.Sh SEE ALSO
173.Xr geom 4 ,
174.Xr ggated 8 ,
175.Xr ggatel 8 ,
176.Xr mount_cd9660 8
177.Sh AUTHORS
178The
179.Nm
180utility as well as this manual page was written by
181.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org .
182