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docs: gluon-neighbour-info

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...@@ -95,17 +95,21 @@ gluon-announced ...@@ -95,17 +95,21 @@ gluon-announced
`gluon-announced` allows querying neighbouring nodes for their `nodeinfo`. `gluon-announced` allows querying neighbouring nodes for their `nodeinfo`.
It is a daemon listening on the multicast address ``ff02::2:1001`` on It is a daemon listening on the multicast address ``ff02::2:1001`` on
UDP port 1001 on the bare mesh interfaces. There is no client yet (but it's UDP port 1001 on the bare mesh interfaces.
being developed), but you can query the information using tools like ``socat``:
gluon-neighbour-info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A programm called `gluon-neighbour-info` has been developed to retrieve
information from neighbours.
:: ::
# socat - UDP6-DATAGRAM:[ff02::2:1001%wlan0-1]:1001 gluon-neighbour-info -i wlan0 \
nodeinfo -p 1001 -d ff02:0:0:0:0:0:2:1001 \
-r nodeinfo
This output is not compressed, but that is likely to change in the future. If On optional timeout may be specified, e.g. `-t 5` (default: 3 seconds).
you intent to use ``gluon-announced``, please contact `tcatm` in Gluon's IRC
channel.
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