plcdevs(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

plcdevs — Qualcomm Atheros Powerline Device Enumerator 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

plcdevs [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay bestie, here's the tea ☕ — plcdevs goes snooping through your host's Ethernet interfaces looking for local Atheros powerline devices that are hanging out on them. 🕵️‍♀️⚡

It's giving "very specific tool for a very specific situation," and that situation is: you've got a host computer with multiple interface cards, but your powerline devices are plugged into like... only one or two of them. 🙈 So instead of guessing which NIC is the chosen one, you just ask plcdevs. Slay. 💖

This program is part of the Qualcomm Atheros Powerline Toolkit. 👑 Peep the plc man page for the overview and the installation instructions, iykyk.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -?, --help — Prints the program help summary on stdout. And bestie, listen — this one takes precedence over other options on the command line. So if you pile a bunch of flags in there, --help is the main character and it wins. Periodt. 👑
• -!, --version — Prints program version information on stdout. Same energy: it takes precedence over other options on the command line. 🫶 Use this one when you're sending screen dumps to Intellon Technical Support so they know exactly which version of the Linux Toolkit you're using. No cap, it saves everyone a whole conversation. 😭

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

None. 💀 Literally none. Nada. Zilch. It's an options-only kinda girlie.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

The following example searches host Ethernet interfaces for powerline devices. And look — we can see that there are three network interfaces present, but interface eth3 is the only one having a local powerline device connected. Not me being obsessed with eth3 having main character energy while eth2 and eth4 just sit there. 🦋✨

# plcdevs
eth2 00:0f:EA:4b:98:CA 010.234.095.003
eth3 00:0F:EA:4B:98:CB 010.234.094.099 AR7400 INT7400-MAC-Test mac-
release 2011/02/09 14:59:43 OCAFAE01494
eth4 00:50:04:A5:D8:98 192.168.099.001

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• plc(1)
• ifs(1)
• plcnets(1)

🌟 CREDITS 🌟

Charles Maier 💖 — we stan.

That's the whole page, bestie — go forth and enumerate those powerline devices. 🧚‍♀️⚡

open-plc-utils-0.0.3 · November 2013 — mwah, sending you a lil forehead kiss, this was plcdevs(1) signing off. 🎀💜