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NAME

       plclist - List Atheros Device Addresses

SYNOPSIS

       plclist [options] [device] [device] [...]

DESCRIPTION

       print  the  local  device  address  or all network device addresses for a specific device.
       This program is ideal for that special script jokey in your life.  It only  prints  device
       addresses.  Nothing else.

       Devices are detected using one of two methods.  The two methods can be used in combination
       to determine network topology.

       The first method sends one VS_SW_VER message to  the  Qualcomm  Atheros  Local  Management
       Address  and  prints  the  Ethernet  source  address  found  in each received confirmation
       message.  The method is used when no device addresses appear on  the  command  line.   The
       result  is  a  list of all local devices, being this connected directly to the local host.
       Each local device device may bridge to an  independent  powerline  network  having  remote
       devices as members.

       The  second  method  sends  one VS_NW_INFO message to each specified device and prints the
       Ethernet source address found in each received message plus the Ethernet addresses of each
       network  station  identified  in  that message body.  This method is used whenever one, or
       more, device addresses appear on the  command  line.   It  is  possible  to  query  remote
       powerline  devices  directly  and  so duplicate devices addresses are printed when devices
       share powerline neighbors.

       This program is part of the Qualcomm Atheros Powerline Toolkit.  See the plc man page  for
       an overview and installation instructions.

COMMENTS

       This  program  is identical to legacy program int6klist but uses version 1 of the Qualcomm
       Atheros VS_NW_INFO vendor-specific message.  Older firmware  versions  may  not  recognize
       this message version.

OPTIONS

       -b     Print  bridge  device  addresses.   Each specified device reports it's own address.
              This option has no effect if no devices are specified.

       -i     Select the host Ethernet interface. All requests are sent via this  host  interface
              and  only  reponses  received  via  this host interface are recognized. The default
              interface is  eth1  because  most  people  use  eth0  as  their  principle  network
              connection;  however,  if  environment  string  "PLC"  is  defined  then  it  takes
              precedence over the default interface.  This  option  then  takes  precedence  over
              either default.

       -n     Append a newline to output.

       -q     Enter quiet mode. This option has no effect at this time.

       -r     Print  remote  device  addresses.  Each  specified  device  reports neighbor device
              addresses. This option has no effect when no devices are specified.

       -s     Insert a newline, instead of a space, between each device address.

       -v     Enter verbose mode. All Etherenet frames  sent  or  received  by  the  program  are
              displayed on stdout.

       -?, --help
              Print  program  help  summary  on  stdout.  This option takes precedence over other
              options on the command line.

       -!, --version
              Print program version information on stdout.  This  option  takes  precedence  over
              other  options  on  the  command line. Use this option when sending screen dumps to
              Atheros Technical Support so that they know exactly  which  version  of  the  Linux
              Toolkit you are using.

ARGUMENTS

       device The  MAC  address of some powerline device. More than one address may be specified.
              If omitted the  the  program  output  consists  of  local  device  addresses  only.
              Otherwise,  output  conisists  of  the  specified  device  followed  by all devices
              associated with it. The default address is local. See DEVICES for information about
              symbolic device addresses.

DEVICES

       Powerline  devices  use  Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. A MAC address is a
       48-bit value entered as 12 hexadecimal digits in upper, lower  or  mixed  character  case.
       Octets   may   be   separated  with  colons  for  clarity.  For  example,  "00b052000001",
       "00:b0:52:00:00:01" and "00b052:000001" are valid and equivalent.

       The following MAC addresses are special and may be entered by name instead of number.

       all    Same as "broadcast".

       broadcast
              A synonym for the  Ethernet  broadcast  address,  FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.  All  devices,
              whether local, remote or foreign recognize messages sent to this address.  A remote
              device is any device at the far end of a powerline connection. A foreign device  is
              any device not manufactured by Atheros.

       local  A  synonym for the Qualcomm Atheros vendor specific Local Management Address (LMA),
              00:B0:52:00:00:01. All local Atheros devices recognize this address but remote  and
              foreign devices do not. A remote device is any device at the far end of a powerline
              connection. A foreign device is any device not manufactured by Atheros.

REFERENCES

       See the Qualcomm  Atheros  HomePlug  AV  Firmware  Technical  Reference  Manual  for  more
       information.

DISCLAIMER

       Atheros  HomePlug  AV  Vendor  Specific  Management Message Entry structure and content is
       proprietary to Qualcomm Atheros, Ocala FL USA. Consequently, public information may not be
       available.  Qualcomm Atheros reserves the right to modify message structure and content in
       future firmware releases without any obligation to notify  or  compensate  users  of  this
       program.

EXAMPLES

       The  following  command  lists  all  local  devices. Since no devices are specified on the
       command line, one VS_SW_VER message is addressed to 00:B0:52:00:00:01  and  the  responses
       are  collected.  As  we  can  see,  there is only one local device available at this time.
       Observe that the prompt appears immediately after the address because newlines are omitted
       by default.

          # plclist
          00:B0:52:BE:EF:04 #

       The  next  example  does  the  same thing but there are now three local devices available.
       Observe that all devices are printed without intervening newlines so that  the  output  of
       this program can be used as input to other toolkit programs.

          # plclist
          00:B0:52:BE:EF:04 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 00:B0:52:BA:BE:01 # int6k

       The   next   example   queries   the   first  local  device  from  the  previous  example,
       00:B0:52:BE:EF:04, for a list neighbor devices. This time a  VS_NW_INFO  message  is  sent
       because  we  named  a  device  on the command line. The named device happens to be a local
       device but it need not be. We can see that the device has no neighbors.

          # plclist 00:B0:52:BE:EF:04
          00:B0:52:BE:EF:04 # int6k

       The next example we query the next local device, 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02, and find that  it  has
       two neighbor devices that did not show up earlier because they are remote devices. Observe
       that  the  three  devices  comprise  a  complete   logical   powerline   network.   Device
       00:B0:52:BA:BE:02   is   connected   to   the   local   host   but  00:0F:33:F2:01:21  and
       00:0f:00:F2:01:13 are connected to other hosts, somewhere.

          # plclist 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02
          00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 00:0F:33:F2:01:21 00:0F:00:F2:01:13

       The next example shows that we can query multiple devices at a time for neighbors. We have
       copied the output from the second example and pasted it onto the command line. We now have
       a list of all devices, local and remote.

          # plclist 00:B0:52:BE:EF:04 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 00:B0:52:BA:BE:01
          00:B0:52:BE:EF:04      00:B0:52:BA:BE:01      00:B0:52:BA:BE:02       00:0F:33:F2:01:21
       00:0F:00:F2:01:13

       This  next  example  does the same thing but uses option -n to append a newline after each
       query. This output is eaiser to understand because each device queried  starts  on  a  new
       line and is followed by any neighbors.

          # plclist 00:B0:52:BE:EF:04 00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 00:B0:52:BA:BE:01 -n
          00:B0:52:BE:EF:04
          00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 00:0F:33:F2:01:21 00:0F:00:F2:01:13
          00:B0:52:BA:BE:01

       This  example invokes plclist which returns a list of local devices. That list is inserted
       into another plclist command line. This demontrates how program  output  can  be  used  in
       scripts.

          # plclist $(plclist) -n
          00:B0:52:BE:EF:04
          00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 00:0F:33:F2:01:21 00:0F:00:F2:01:13
          00:B0:52:BA:BE:01

       This  next  example accomplishes the same thing since all local device respond with a list
       of powerline neighbors.

          # plclist local
          00:B0:52:BE:EF:04
          00:B0:52:BA:BE:02 00:0F:33:F2:01:21 00:0F:00:F2:01:13
          00:B0:52:BA:BE:01

SEE ALSO

       plc(1), plcrate(1), plcstat(1), plctool(1), plctone(1)

CREDITS

        Charles Maier