Name
netconsole — Output console data across the network.
Synopsis
netconsole=[
src-port
]@[
src-ip
]/[
dev
],[
target-port
]@
target-ip
/[
target-mac-address
]
Description
Send kernel console data across the network using UDP
packets to another machine. Options are:
-
src-port
-
Source port for the UDP packets.
The default value is 6665.
-
src-ip
-
Source IP address of the interface
to use.
-
dev
-
Network interface to use.
eth0 is an example.
The network interface can also run normal network traffic, because
the netconsole data is not intrusive and should cause no slowdown
in other network operations.
-
target-port
-
Port that the logging agent
will use. The default value is 6666.
-
target-ip
-
IP address for the logging
agent.
-
target-mac-address
-
Ethernet MAC address
for the logging agent.
To listen to this data, the remote machine can use the
syslogd
program, or run the
netcat
program as follows:
netcat -u -l -p
port
For more background on how to use this option,
see the file
Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt.
