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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd June 8, 2012
28.Dt FLOWCTL 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm flowctl
32.Nd
33.Xr ng_netflow 4
34control utility
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Nm
37.Op Fl d Ar level
38.Ar path command
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42utility is intended to control the
43.Xr ng_netflow 4
44nodes.
45It has a single option:
46.Bl -tag -width ".Fl d Ar level"
47.It Fl d Ar level
48Set the
49.Xr netgraph 3
50debugging level to
51.Ar level .
52.El
53.Sh COMMANDS
54Currently,
55.Nm
56supports only one command.
57.Bl -tag -width ".Cm show"
58.It Cm show Oo Cm ipv4|ipv6 Oc Op Cm human|verbose
59This command is the analog of the
60.Dq "show ip cache flow"
61command of a Cisco router.
62It dumps the contents of the flow cache in Cisco-like format.
63Specifying either
64.Cm ipv4
65or
66.Cm ipv6
67would extract only IPv4 or IPv6 flows respectively.
68It has optional parameter
69.Cm verbose ,
70which is analog of the
71.Dq "show ip cache verbose flow"
72command. Additionally,
73.Cm human
74parameter can be specify to show selected flows in human-readable format.
75.El
76.Sh EXIT STATUS
77.Ex -std
78.Sh SEE ALSO
79.Xr netgraph 3 ,
80.Xr ng_netflow 4
81.Sh AUTHORS
82.An -nosplit
83The
84.Nm
85utility was written by
86.An Gleb Smirnoff Aq Mt glebius@FreeBSD.org ,
87based on
88.Nm ipacctctl
89written by
90.An Roman V. Palagin Aq Mt romanp@unshadow.net .
91