TIPC-NAMETABLE(8)

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version 7.3.0 · 3 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 10, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

✨ TIPC-NAMETABLE(8) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the tipc-nametable manual page — it's a Linux one, section 8, and it's literally just here to teach you how to peek at the TIPC nametable. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

💖 NAME 💖

tipc-nametable — show TIPC nametable

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tipc nametable show

that's it. that's the command. go off. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so these are the options (flags) and ngl you can pass them anywhere in the command chain. like, position? irrelevant. she doesn't care. 👑

  • -h, --help — shows help about the last valid command. so tipc nametable --help gives you the nametable help, and tipc --help gives you the general help. where you put the option in the string genuinely does not matter, fr fr.
  • -j, -json — spits the results out in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
  • -p, -pretty — okay so the default JSON format is compact and way more efficient to parse, but bestie, it's hard for most people to read. this flag adds indentation so it's readable. iconic behaviour honestly. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the nametable shows you TIPC publication information. that's the tea. 💜

🌈 Nametable format 🌈

  • Type — the 32-bit type field of the port name. this field often tells you the class of service a port provides.
  • Lower — the lower bound of the 32-bit instance field of the port name. the instance field is often used as a sub-class indicator.
  • Upper — the upper bound of the 32-bit instance field of the port name. the instance field is often used as a sub-class indicator. and listen, if lower and upper are different, that means the socket is bound to the port name range [lower,upper]. 💫
  • Port Identity — the unique socket (port) identifier within the TIPC cluster. the port identity is a node identity followed by a socket reference number. main character identifier energy, honestly.
  • Publication — the publication ID is a random number used internally to represent a publication.
  • Scope — the publication scope specifies the visibility of a bound port name. the scope can be specified to comprise three different domains: node, cluster and zone. applications living inside the specified scope can see and access the port using the displayed port name. so basically, scope = who gets to see you. 🫶

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

exit status is 0 if the command was successful, or a positive integer if it failed. that's the whole rule. 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

tipc(8), tipc-bearer(8), tipc-link(8), tipc-media(8), tipc-node(8), tipc-peer(8), tipc-socket(8)

go read the whole friend group, they're all slaying. 💖

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? report it to the Network Developers mailing list <netdev@vger.kernel.org> — that's where the development and maintenance is primarily done. and good news bestie: you do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message there. so no excuses. 🐛✨

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>

this page came to you from iproute2, dated 02 Jun 2015 — so yeah, she's an elder icon but she still ate. 💅🎀 bye bestie, go show that nametable who's boss! 🦋💖
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