ifmcstat(8)

ifmcstat8

Dump multicast group management statistics per interface

Usage

ifmcstat [-i interface] [-f address-family] [-v]

Overview

The ifmcstat command dumps multicast group information from the kernel.

The following options are supported:

-i interface

specifies the interface to be displayed.

-f address-family

specifies the address family to be displayed; inet, inet6 and link are supported.

-v

specifies that link-layer memberships should be printed; they are suppressed by default. It may not be specified for -f link. Source lists for each group will also be printed.

Implementation notes

ifmcstat will always print the embedded scope IDs of IPv6 multicast group memberships. This is because memberships are always scoped to an interface.

When run with the -v option, ifmcstat may print multicast MAC addresses twice if they are referenced by a layer 3 protocol.

Releases

70 releases since FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE; the text changed 39 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 4.1–4.3
  3. 4.4–4.7
  4. 4.8–4.11
  5. 5.0–5.5
  6. 6.0–6.2
  7. 6.3
  8. 6.4
  9. 7.0
  10. 7.1
  11. 7.2
  12. 7.3
  13. 7.4
  14. 8.0
  15. 8.1
  16. 8.2
  17. 8.3
  18. 8.4
  19. 9.0
  20. 9.1
  21. 9.2
  22. 9.3
  23. 10.0
  24. 10.1
  25. 10.2
  26. 10.3
  27. 10.4
  28. 11.0
  29. 11.1
  30. 11.2
  31. 11.3
  32. 11.4
  33. 12.0
  34. 12.1
  35. 12.2
  36. 12.3
  37. 12.4
  38. 13.0–13.2
  39. 13.3–15.1
  40. 16.0

-f since FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE; -i since FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE; -v since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE.

-K until FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE; -M until FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE; -N until FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.