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DCONSCHAT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DCONSCHAT(8) NAME dconschat -- user interface to dcons SYNOPSIS dconschat [-brvwRT1] [-h hz] [-C console_port] [-G gdb_port] [-M core] [-N system] dconschat [-brvwR1] [-h hz] [-C console_port] [-G gdb_port] [-a address] [-u bus_num] -t target_eui64 DESCRIPTION The dconschat utility is designed to provide a way for users to access dcons(4) (dumb console device) on a local or remote system. The dconschat interacts with dcons(4) using kvm(3) or firewire(4) and inter- act with a user over tty or TCP/IP. To access remote dcons(4) using firewire(4), you have to specify target EUI64 address by -t option. The dconschat and dcons(4) communicate using 2 port, one for console port and the other for remote gdb port. Users are supposed to access dconschat using tty, telnet and gdb. You can specify listen ports for console and gdb port by -C and -G options respectively. The port number 0 has special meaning that current tty(stdin/out) is used instead of TCP/IP. A negative port number will disable the port. To quit dcon- schat, send a CR + '~' + '.' sequence to the console port or send signal to the process. By analogy with pty(4) device, the dcons(4) acts as a slave device and dconschat acts as a master device with telnetd(8). -b Translate Ctrl-C to ALT_BREAK(CR + '~' + Ctrl-B) on gdb port. -r Replay old buffer on connection. -v Verbose debug output. Multiple '-v' increase verbosity. -w Listen on wildcard address rather than localhost. -R Read-only. Don't write anything on dcons buffer. -T Enable ad hoc workaround for telnet protocol to remove unneces- sary byte sequences. It should be set when you access dconschat using telnet. -1 One-Shot. Read available buffer then exit. This implies -r op- tion. -h hz Specify polling rate. The default value is 100. -C console_port Specify console port. The default value is 0(stdin/stdout). -G gdb_port Specify gdb port.. The default value is -1(disabled). -M core Specify core file. -N system Specify system file such as /boot/kernel/kernel. -t target_eui64 Specify the 64bit extended unique identifier of the target and use FireWire to access remote dcons(4). -a address Specify the physical/IO address of the dcons buffer. See dcons(4) for details. If this option is not specified, dconschat tries to get the address from the Configuration ROM on the target. You are supposed to enable dcons_crom(4) on the target to omit this option. -u bus_num Specify FireWire bus number. The default is 0. EXAMPLE To use dconschat with FireWire for remote dcons, you have to specify the eui64 of the target. You can obtain EUI64 by running fwcontorl(4) with- out options. The first EUI64 is of the host running fwcontrol and others on the bus follow. # fwcontrol 2 devices (info_len=2) node EUI64 status 1 0x7766554433221100 0 0 0x0011223344556677 1 The EUI64 doesn't change unless you change the hardware as the ethernet address. Now we can run the dconschat. # dconschat -br -G 12345 -t 0x00112233445566677 You'll get console output of the target and login prompt if a getty is running on dcons. You can break to DDB with ALT_BREAK (CR + '~' + Ctrl-B) if DDB and ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER is enabled in the target kernel. To quit the session, type CR + '~' + '.' in the console port. Using gdb port is almost the same as remote gdb over serial line except using TCP/IP instead of /dev/cu*. See "On-line Kernel Debugging Using Re- mote GDB" section of The FreeBSD Developers Handbook. % gdb -k kernel.debug (kgdb) target remote :12345 Once gdb is attached and you specified '-b' option to dconschat, typing "Ctrl-C" on gdb causes break to debugger. The following command get console log from crash dump: # dconschat -1 -M vmcore.0 -N kernel.0 If you want access to the console using telnet, try the following: # dconschat -rTC 5555 & # telnet localhost 5555 You may want to keep logging console output of several machines. Con- serve-com in the ports collection should help you. Insert the following lines in the conserver.cf console local { master localhost; type exec; exec /usr/sbin/dconschat -rh 25; } console remote { master localhost; type exec; exec /usr/sbin/dconschat -rh 25 -t 0x0011223344556677; } FILES /dev/fwmem0.0 /dev/mem /dev/kmem SEE ALSO gdb(1), telnet(1), kvm(3), dcons(4), dcons_crom(4), ddb(4), firewire(4), fwohci(4), fwcontrol(8) AUTHORS Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@FreeBSD.org> BUGS This utility is still under development. BSD February 11, 2003 BSD
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