2 In U-Boot, we implemented the networked console via the standard
3 "devices" mechanism, which means that you can switch between the
4 serial and network input/output devices by adjusting the 'stdin' and
5 'stdout' environment variables. To switch to the networked console,
6 set either of these variables to "nc". Input and output can be
7 switched independently.
9 We use an environment variable 'ncip' to set the IP address and the
10 port of the destination. The format is <ip_addr>:<port>. If <port> is
11 omitted, the value of 6666 is used. If the env var doesn't exist, the
12 broadcast address and port 6666 are used. If it is set to an IP
13 address of 0 (or 0.0.0.0) then no messages are sent to the network.
15 For example, if your server IP is 192.168.1.1, you could use:
17 => setenv nc 'setenv stdout nc;setenv stdin nc'
18 => setenv ncip 192.168.1.1
23 On the host side, please use this script to access the console:
25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
28 [ $# = 1 ] || { echo "Usage: $0 target_ip" >&2 ; exit 1 ; }
31 stty -icanon -echo intr ^T
32 nc -u -l -p 6666 < /dev/null &
33 nc -u ${TARGET_IP} 6666
34 stty icanon echo intr ^C
35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
37 The script expects exactly one argument, which is interpreted as the
38 target IP address (or host name, assuming DNS is working). The script
39 can be interrupted by pressing ^T (CTRL-T).
41 Be aware that in some distributives (Fedora Core 5 at least)
42 usage of nc has been changed and -l and -p options are considered
43 as mutually exclusive. If nc complains about options provided,
44 you can just remove the -p option from the script.
46 It turns out that 'netcat' cannot be used to listen to broadcast
47 packets. We developed our own tool 'ncb' (see tools directory) that
48 listens to broadcast packets on a given port and dumps them to the
49 standard output. use it as follows:
51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
54 [ $# = 1 ] || { echo "Usage: $0 target_ip" >&2 ; exit 1 ; }
57 stty icanon echo intr ^T
59 nc -u ${TARGET_IP} 6666
60 stty icanon echo intr ^C
62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
64 Again, this script takes exactly one argument, which is interpreted
65 as the target IP address (or host name, assuming DNS is working). The
66 script can be interrupted by pressing ^T (CTRL-T).
68 The 'ncb' tool can be found in the tools directory; it will not be
69 built by default so you will ither have to adjust the Makefile or
73 For Linux, the network-based console needs special configuration.
74 Minimally, the host IP address needs to be specified. This can be
75 done either via the kernel command line, or by passing parameters
76 while loading the netconsole.o module (when used in a loadable module
77 configuration). Please refer to Documentation/networking/logging.txt
78 file for the original Ingo Molnar's documentation on how to pass
79 parameters to the loadable module.
81 The format of the kernel command line parameter (for the static
82 configuration) is as follows:
84 netconsole=[src-port]@[src-ip]/[<dev>],[tgt-port]@<tgt-ip>/[tgt-macaddr]
88 src-port source for UDP packets
90 src-ip source IP to use
91 (defaults to the interface's address)
94 tgt-port port for logging agent
96 tgt-ip IP address for logging agent
97 (this is the required parameter)
98 tgt-macaddr ethernet MAC address for logging agent
99 (defaults to broadcast)
103 netconsole=4444@10.0.0.1/eth1,9353@10.0.0.2/12:34:56:78:9a:bc
107 netconsole=@/,@192.168.3.1/
109 Please note that for the Linux networked console to work, the
110 ethernet interface has to be up by the time the netconsole driver is
111 initialized. This means that in case of static kernel configuration,
112 the respective Ethernet interface has to be brought up using the "IP
113 Autoconfiguration" kernel feature, which is usually done by defaults
114 in the ELDK-NFS-based environment.
116 To browse the Linux network console output, use the 'netcat' tool invoked
121 Note that unlike the U-Boot implementation the Linux netconsole is
122 unidirectional, i. e. you have console output only in Linux.