Whistle's Netgraph link-layer (sometimes more) networking infrastructure.

Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.

Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from:  Whistle CVS tree

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Whistle Communications, Inc.
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+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\" $Whistle: ngctl.8,v 1.6 1999/01/20 03:19:44 archie Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd January 19, 1999
+.Dt NGCTL 8
+.Os FreeBSD 3
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm ngctl
+.Nd netgraph control utility
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm ngctl
+.Op Fl d
+.Op Fl f Ar filename
+.Op Fl n Ar nodename
+.Op Ar command ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+utility creates a new netgraph node of type
+.Em socket
+which can be used to issue netgraph commands.
+If no
+.Fl f
+flag is given, no
+command is supplied on the command line, and standard input is a tty,
+.Nm ngctl
+will enter interactive mode. Otherwise
+.Nm ngctl
+will execute the supplied command(s) and exit immediately.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Fl f Ar nodeinfo
+Read commands from the named file.
+A single dash represents the standard input.
+Blank lines and lines starting with a ``#'' are ignored.
+.It Fl n Ar nodename
+Assign
+.Em nodename
+to the newly created netgraph node. The default name is
+.Em ngctlXXX
+where XXX is the process ID number.
+.It Fl d
+Increase the debugging verbosity level.
+.El
+.Sh COMMANDS
+The currently supported commands in
+.Nm ngctl
+are:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+connect    Connects two nodes
+debug      Get/set debugging verbosity level
+help       Show command summary or get help on a command
+list       Show information about all nodes
+mkpeer     Create and connect a new node to an existing node
+name       Assign a name to a node
+read       Read and execute commands from a file
+rmhook     Disconnect a node's hook
+show       Show information about a node
+shutdown   Shutdown a node
+status     Get human readable status from a node
+types      Show all installed node types
+quit       Exit program
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The ``help'' command displays the available
+commands, their usage, and a brief description.
+.Sh EXIT VALUE
+The
+.Nm
+utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr netgraph 3 ,
+.Xr netgraph 4 .
+.Xr nghook 8 .
+.Sh AUTHOR
+Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Em netgraph
+system was designed and first implemented at Whistle Communications, Inc.
+in a version FreeBSD 2.2 customized for the Whistle InterJet.