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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