coqos_rel(1)

💖 coqos_rel — Release Bandwidth Management 💖

okay bestie, this is coqos_rel(1) from the Qualcomm Atheros Open Powerline Toolkit, and it's about to tell your powerline devices to chill out and stop micromanaging a stream. it's giving "we're done here, ty next". ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

coqos_rel [options] cid [device] [...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, this page is under construction?? yes bestie, it literally says that, i'm not gatekeeping. 🙈

what it does do: it tells one or more devices to stop managing a stream. run this when bandwidth management is no longer needed or wanted — like when the vibe check says "we don't need this anymore". if you want to suspend and resume bandwidth management instead of yeeting it entirely, go use coqos_mod instead, she's the one for pausing.

this program is part of the Qualcomm Atheros Powerline Toolkit. wanna know the whole overview + how to install? the plc man page has you covered. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -e — redirects stderr messages to stdout. by convention, status and error messages go to stderr while the main character output goes to stdout. this option prints everything on stdout for when that's what you want. slay.
• -i interface — picks the host Ethernet interface. all requests go out through this host interface, and only responses coming back through this host interface get recognized. the default interface is eth1 because most people use eth0 as their principle network connection — but if the environment string "PLC" is defined, it takes precedence over the default interface. and this option then takes precedence over either default. hierarchy, periodt. 👑
• -q — suppresses status messages on stderr. quiet queen behavior.
• -r — displays relative memory offsets on output. this option is the default. ✨
• -v — prints additional information on stdout. specifically, it dumps outgoing Ethernet packets on stdout. very "not me being nosy" energy.
• -?,--help — displays program help information on stderr. this option takes precedence over all other options on the command line except version information. so help wins over everything except version, okurrr.
• -!,--version — displays program version information on stderr. this option takes precedence over all other options on the command line except help information. use this one when you're sending screen dumps to Atheros technical staff. 📸

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cid — the connection identifier of the affected stream. this is the stream you're releasing, bestie.
• device — the MAC address of some powerline device. you can specify more than one address on the command line — if you do, operations are performed on each device in turn, one by one, no cutting the line. the default address is "local". see DEVICES for more info. 💜

🦋 DEVICES 🦋

Ethernet MAC addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal octets, optionally separated by colon. for example, the Qualcomm Atheros Local Management Address (LMA) of "00b052000001" may also be entered as "00:b0:52:00:00:01" or "00b052:000001". addresses are case insensitive and quotes are optional. plus, some special addresses may be entered by name rather than number — and those names are case sensitive, so watch it. 👀

• all — a synonym for the "broadcast" address, described next.
• broadcast — a synonym for the Ethernet broadcast address, FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. all devices, whether local, remote or foreign, will respond to this address. it's giving "everyone's invited to the group chat". 📣
• 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. iykyk.

🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

see the Qualcomm Atheros HomePlug AV Firmware Technical Reference Manual for more information. it's the lore. 📚

⚠️ DISCLAIMER ⚠️

Atheros HomePlug AV Vendor Specific Management Message 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.

tl;dr — it's proprietary, the info might not be out there, and they can change stuff in future firmware without telling you or paying you. no cap. 💀

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

the next example instructs device 00:B0:52:BA:BE"01 to release stream 803. the stream will the remain unmanaged indefinitely. (yes, that address is written exactly like that in the original — we do not fix, we do not touch, we report verbatim 🫡)

# coqos_rel 803 00:B0:52:BA:BE:01

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

coqos_add(1), coqos_info(1), coqos_man(1), coqos_mod(1)

💖 CREDITS 💖

 Bill Wike
 Nathaniel Houghton
 Charles Maier "

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from open-plc-utils-0.0.3, dated November 2013 — yeah she's an elder but she still eats. 💅✨ go release those streams, you absolute icon. 🦋🎀