Add two new generic control messages, NGM_ASCII2BINARY and

NGM_BINARY2ASCII, which convert control messages to ASCII and back.
This allows control messages to be sent and received in ASCII form
using ngctl(8), which makes ngctl a lot more useful.

This also allows all the type-specific debugging code in libnetgraph
to go away -- instead, we just ask the node itself to do the ASCII
translation for us.

Currently, all generic control messages are supported, as well as
messages associated with the following node types: async, cisco,
ksocket, and ppp.

See /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ngctl for an example of using this.

Also give ngctl(8) the ability to print out incoming data and
control messages at any time.  Eventually nghook(8) may be subsumed.

Several other misc. bug fixes.

Reviewed by:	julian

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libnetgraph/netgraph.h b/lib/libnetgraph/netgraph.h
index f60f04b..c5a87cb 100644
--- a/lib/libnetgraph/netgraph.h
+++ b/lib/libnetgraph/netgraph.h
@@ -50,9 +50,11 @@ __BEGIN_DECLS
 int	NgMkSockNode(const char *, int *, int *);
 int	NgNameNode(int, const char *, const char *, ...);
 int	NgSendMsg(int, const char *, int, int, const void *, size_t);
+int	NgSendAsciiMsg(int, const char *, const char *, ...);
 int	NgSendReplyMsg(int, const char *,
 		const struct ng_mesg *, const void *, size_t);
 int	NgRecvMsg(int, struct ng_mesg *, size_t, char *);
+int	NgRecvAsciiMsg(int, struct ng_mesg *, size_t, char *);
 int	NgSendData(int, const char *, const u_char *, size_t);
 int	NgRecvData(int, u_char *, size_t, char *);
 int	NgSetDebug(int);