From ea14716362e78d109490df9f345488d1c9a4a6c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:00:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: netsniff-ng: add section about netlink traffic debugging

Recently, the nlmon device driver got accepted [1], so that it's now
possible to debug netlink traffic as well.

 [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/273952

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
---
 netsniff-ng.8 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/netsniff-ng.8 b/netsniff-ng.8
index 60da8d77..0bc874b1 100644
--- a/netsniff-ng.8
+++ b/netsniff-ng.8
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ scheduled move to slower medias). You can then use mergecap(1) to transform
 all pcaps into a single large pcap. Thus, netsniff-ng then works multithreaded
 eventually.
 .PP
+netsniff-ng can also be used to debug netlink traffic. On newer kernels one
+needs to modprobe nlmon so that a ''netlink'' networking device appears that
+can be used as an input device for netsniff-ng.
+.PP
 .SH OPTIONS
 .PP
 .SS -i <dev|pcap|->, -d <dev|pcap|->, --in <dev|pcap|->, --dev <dev|pcap|->
-- 
2.11.4.GIT