From b38e945faec41eeda3654b985e1d197beb777043 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nils Schneider Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 19:51:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: gluon-neighbour-info --- docs/features/announce.rst | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/features/announce.rst b/docs/features/announce.rst index c80de85f..28844e5a 100644 --- a/docs/features/announce.rst +++ b/docs/features/announce.rst @@ -95,17 +95,21 @@ gluon-announced `gluon-announced` allows querying neighbouring nodes for their `nodeinfo`. It is a daemon listening on the multicast address ``ff02::2:1001`` on -UDP port 1001 on the bare mesh interfaces. There is no client yet (but it's -being developed), but you can query the information using tools like ``socat``: +UDP port 1001 on the bare mesh interfaces. + +gluon-neighbour-info +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +A programm called `gluon-neighbour-info` has been developed to retrieve +information from neighbours. :: - # socat - UDP6-DATAGRAM:[ff02::2:1001%wlan0-1]:1001 - nodeinfo + gluon-neighbour-info -i wlan0 \ + -p 1001 -d ff02:0:0:0:0:0:2:1001 \ + -r nodeinfo -This output is not compressed, but that is likely to change in the future. If -you intent to use ``gluon-announced``, please contact `tcatm` in Gluon's IRC -channel. +On optional timeout may be specified, e.g. `-t 5` (default: 3 seconds). Adding a fact -------------