Commit 488c41d2 authored by Martin Schwenke's avatar Martin Schwenke Committed by Stephen Hemminger

ip: Add label option to ip monitor

Prefix labelling is currently only activated when monitoring "all"
objects.  However, the output can still be confusing when monitoring
more than 1 object, so add an option to always print prefix labels.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
parent b8a45897
...@@ -2542,13 +2542,15 @@ Namely, ...@@ -2542,13 +2542,15 @@ Namely,
the \verb|monitor| command is the first in the command line and then the \verb|monitor| command is the first in the command line and then
the object list follows: the object list follows:
\begin{verbatim} \begin{verbatim}
ip monitor [ file FILE ] [ all | OBJECT-LIST ] ip monitor [ file FILE ] [ all | OBJECT-LIST ] [ label ]
\end{verbatim} \end{verbatim}
\verb|OBJECT-LIST| is the list of object types that we want to monitor. \verb|OBJECT-LIST| is the list of object types that we want to
It may contain \verb|link|, \verb|address| and \verb|route|. monitor. It may contain \verb|link|, \verb|address| and \verb|route|.
If no \verb|file| argument is given, \verb|ip| opens RTNETLINK, Specifying \verb|label| indicates that output lines should be labelled
listens on it and dumps state changes in the format described with the type of object being printed --- this happens by default if
in previous sections. \verb|all| is specified. If no \verb|file| argument is given,
\verb|ip| opens RTNETLINK, listens on it and dumps state changes in
the format described in previous sections.
If a file name is given, it does not listen on RTNETLINK, If a file name is given, it does not listen on RTNETLINK,
but opens the file containing RTNETLINK messages saved in binary format but opens the file containing RTNETLINK messages saved in binary format
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...@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ int prefix_banner; ...@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ int prefix_banner;
static void usage(void) static void usage(void)
{ {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ] [ FILE ]\n"); fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ] [ FILE ] [ label ]\n");
fprintf(stderr, "LISTofOBJECTS := link | address | route | mroute | prefix |\n"); fprintf(stderr, "LISTofOBJECTS := link | address | route | mroute | prefix |\n");
fprintf(stderr, " neigh | netconf\n"); fprintf(stderr, " neigh | netconf\n");
fprintf(stderr, "FILE := file FILENAME\n"); fprintf(stderr, "FILE := file FILENAME\n");
...@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ int do_ipmonitor(int argc, char **argv) ...@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ int do_ipmonitor(int argc, char **argv)
if (matches(*argv, "file") == 0) { if (matches(*argv, "file") == 0) {
NEXT_ARG(); NEXT_ARG();
file = *argv; file = *argv;
} else if (matches(*argv, "label") == 0) {
prefix_banner = 1;
} else if (matches(*argv, "link") == 0) { } else if (matches(*argv, "link") == 0) {
llink=1; llink=1;
groups = 0; groups = 0;
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