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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 29, 2018 +.Dd December 5, 2018 .Dt NETDUMP 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm netdump .Nd protocol for transmitting kernel dumps to a remote server .Sh SYNOPSIS To compile netdump client support into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: .Bd -ragged -offset indent .Cd "options NETDUMP" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION netdump is a UDP-based protocol for transmitting kernel dumps to a remote host. A netdump client is a panicking kernel, and a netdump server is a host running the .Nm daemon, available in ports as .Pa ports/ftp/netdumpd . .Nm clients are configured using the .Xr dumpon 8 utility. .Pp .Nm client messages consist of a fixed-size header followed by a variable-sized payload. The header contains the message type, a sequence number, the offset of the payload data in the kernel dump, and the length of the payload data (not including the header). The message types are .Dv HERALD , FINISHED , KDH , VMCORE , and .Dv EKCD_KEY . .Nm server messages have a fixed size and contain only the sequence number of the client message. These messages indicate that the server has successfully processed the client message with the corresponding sequence number. All client messages are acknowledged this way. Server messages are always sent to port 20024 of the client. .Pp To initiate a .Nm , the client sends a .Dv HERALD message to the server at port 20023. The client may include a relative path in its payload, in which case the .Nm server should attempt to save the dump at that path relative to its configured dump directory. The server will acknowledge the .Dv HERALD using a random source port, and the client must send all subsequent messages to that port. .Pp The .Dv KDH , VMCORE , and .Dv EKCD_KEY message payloads contain the kernel dump header, dump contents, and dump encryption key respectively. The offset in the message header should be treated as a seek offset in the corresponding file. There are no ordering requirements for these messages. .Pp A .Nm is completed by sending the .Dv FINISHED message to the server. .Pp The following network drivers support netdump: .Xr alc 4 , .Xr bge 4 , .Xr bnxt 4 , .Xr bxe 4 , .Xr cxgb 4 , .Xr em 4 , .Xr igb 4 , .Xr ix 4 , +.Xr mlx4en 4 , .Xr re 4 , .Xr vtnet 4 . .Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES The following variables are available as both .Xr sysctl 8 variables and .Xr loader 8 variables: .Bl -tag -width "indent" .It Va net.netdump.debug Control debug message verbosity. Debug messages are disabled by default, but are useful when troubleshooting or when developing driver support. .It Va net.netdump.path Specify a path relative to the server's dump directory in which to store the dump. For example, if the .Nm server is configured to store dumps in .Pa /var/crash , a path of .Dq foo will cause the server to attempt to store dumps from the client in .Pa /var/crash/foo . The server will not automatically create the relative directory. .It Va net.netdump.polls The client will poll the configured network interface while waiting for acknowledgements. This parameter controls the maximum number of poll attempts before giving up, which typically results in a re-transmit. Each poll attempt takes 0.5ms. .It Va net.netdump.retries The number of times the client will re-transmit a packet before aborting a dump due to a lack of acknowledgement. The default may be too small in environments with lots of packet loss. .It Va net.netdump.arp_retries The number of times the client will attempt to learn the MAC address of the configured gateway or server before giving up and aborting the dump. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr decryptcore 8 , .Xr dumpon 8 , .Xr savecore 8 .Sh HISTORY .Nm client support first appeared in .Fx 12.0 . .Sh BUGS Only IPv4 is supported. .Pp .Nm may only be used after the kernel has panicked.