mfsnetdump(8)

mfsnetdump8

Dump network traffic as mfs packets

Usage

mfsnetdump [-r PCAP_FILE] [-i INTERFACE] [-p PORT_RANGE] [-f PCAP_FILTER] [-c PCOUNT] [-s MBYTES] [-e COMMANDS] [-o COMMANDS] [-x] [-y] [-n]

Overview

mfsnetdump is an internal diagnostic tool similar to tcpdump, but specialized for MooseFS.

Options

-r

specify PCAP file to read packets from

-i

dump packets using given network interface

-p

show only packets from given port range (default range is 9419-9422, so by default only MFS packets are shown)

-f

define pcap filter to filter packets

-c

dump only PCOUNT packets and exit

-s

dump only first MBYTES bytes of each packet

-e

do not display given commands

-o

show only given commands

-x

do not display mfs maintenance commands (such as CSTOMA_SPACE or CLTOMA_FUSE_TIME_SYNC)

-y

do not display open/close connections packets

-n

show ANTOAN_NOP command (disabled by default)

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

From moosefs 4.59.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.