int6keth(1)

💅 int6keth — Qualcomm Atheros Ethernet PHY Settings ✨

okay bestie, so this is int6keth, from the Qualcomm Atheros Open Powerline Toolkit (man page name int6keth(1), yes she has her own manual section, we stan a whole section) 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int6keth [options] [device] [device] [...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically, this reads or writes INT6x00 Ethernet PHY settings using VS_ENET_SETTINGS. That's the whole gig. Read 'em, or write 'em, your call. 💖

This program is part of the Qualcomm Atheros Powerline Toolkit, no cap. Peep the plc man page for the overview and the installation instructions if you need to get set up first. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -a mode — Advertise auto-negotiate capabilities. This one only kicks in when -w is around, and it gets fully ignored when -r shows up. Valid values are "1000Full", "100Full", "100Half", "10Full" and "10Half". The default? No advertisement of capabilities. Nothing. Silence. 🦋
• -d mode — Device duplex transmission mode. Takes effect when -w is present, ignored when -r is present. Valid values are "Half" and "Full". Default is "Half". 💜
• -e — Redirects stderr messages to stdout. By convention, status and error messages go on stderr while the primary program output goes on stdout — and this option puts everything on stdout when that's what you want. One stream, one vibe. ✨
• -f control — Flow control enable. Takes effect when -w is present, ignored when -r is present. Valid values are "On", "Off", "Tx" and "Rx". Default is "Off". 🎀
• -n mode — Auto-negotiate mode. Takes effect when -w is present, ignored when -r is present. Valid values are "On" and "Off". Default is "On". ⭐
• -p number — The ethernet port number. Available port numbers differ with chipset and firmware version, so go consult the appropriate technical documentation, bestie, I can't do that part for you. Permitted values are 0 through 7. The default port is 0. 🔥
• -s speed — Network transmission speed in mbps. Takes effect when -w is present, ignored when -r is present. Valid values are "10", "100" and "1000". The default value is "10". 🍓
• -i interface — Select the host Ethernet interface. All requests get sent via this host interface, and only reponses received via this host interface are recognized. (Yes, "reponses" — she said what she said, I'm keeping it.) The default interface is eth1 because most people use eth0 as their principle network connection. BUT — if the environment string "PLC" is defined, then it takes precedence over the default interface. And this option then takes precedence over either default. Precedence pyramid, iconic behavior. 👑
• -q — Suppresses status messages on stderr. Quiet mode. Shhh. 🤫
• -r — Read settings from the Ethernet interface on the designated port. If it's present, or implied by default, then options -a, -d, -f, -n and -s have no effect. This option and option -w are mutually exclusive — pick a lane, babe. 🚫
• -v — Print additional information on stdout. In particular, this dumps incoming and outgoing packets, which you can save as text files for reference. Packet dump archive, we love to see it. 📦
• -w — Write settings to the Ethernet interface on the specified port. > Be sure to specify all settings to avoid writing default values. This option and option -r are mutually exclusive. ⚠️
• -?,--help — Print program help summary on stdout. This option takes precedence over other options on the command line. She wins, always. 💅
• -?,--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. Help the techs help you, fr fr. 🌈

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• device — The MAC address of some powerline device. More than one address may be specified on the command line. If more than one address is specified, then operations are performed on each device in turn. The default address is local. See DEVICES for info. 💫

💖 DEVICES 💖

Powerline devices use Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. A MAC address is a 48-bit value entered as 12 hexadecimal digits, upper, lower or mixed character case — she does not care about your capitalization choices. Octets may be separated with colons for clarity. For example, "00b052000001", "00:b0:52:00:00:01" and "00b052:000001" are valid and equivalent. All three. Same thing. Pick your fave. ✨

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. Everyone hears you. Everyone. 📢
• 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. It's giving required reading. 📚

🚨 DISCLAIMER 🚨

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

bestie. read that again. they can change stuff and literally do not have to tell you or pay you. 😭

💀 EXAMPLES 💀

None.

That's it. That's the section. No examples. Not one. The audacity. 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

plc(1) int6kid(1), int6krule(1), int6kstat(1)

🎀 CREDITS 🎀

Charles Maier

open-plc-utils-0.0.3 · November 2013 — and that's the whole int6keth(1) page, bestie, go forth and configure those PHY settings responsibly 💅✨🦋