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.\" Copyright (c) 2018 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 5, 2018
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.Dt NETDUMP 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm netdump
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.Nd protocol for transmitting kernel dumps to a remote server
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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To compile netdump client support into the kernel, place the following line in
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your kernel configuration file:
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.Bd -ragged -offset indent
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.Cd "options NETDUMP"
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.Ed
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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netdump is a UDP-based protocol for transmitting kernel dumps to a remote host.
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A netdump client is a panicking kernel, and a netdump server is a host
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running the
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.Nm
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daemon, available in ports as
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.Pa ports/ftp/netdumpd .
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.Nm
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clients are configured using the
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.Xr dumpon 8
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utility.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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client messages consist of a fixed-size header followed by a variable-sized
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payload.
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The header contains the message type, a sequence number, the offset of
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the payload data in the kernel dump, and the length of the payload data
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(not including the header).
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The message types are
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.Dv HERALD , FINISHED , KDH , VMCORE ,
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and
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.Dv EKCD_KEY .
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.Nm
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server messages have a fixed size and contain only the sequence number of
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the client message.
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These messages indicate that the server has successfully processed the
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client message with the corresponding sequence number.
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All client messages are acknowledged this way.
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Server messages are always sent to port 20024 of the client.
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.Pp
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To initiate a
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.Nm ,
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the client sends a
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.Dv HERALD
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message to the server at port 20023.
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The client may include a relative path in its payload, in which case the
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.Nm
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server should attempt to save the dump at that path relative to its configured
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dump directory.
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The server will acknowledge the
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.Dv HERALD
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using a random source port, and the client must send all subsequent messages
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to that port.
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.Pp
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The
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.Dv KDH , VMCORE ,
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and
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.Dv EKCD_KEY
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message payloads contain the kernel dump header, dump contents, and
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dump encryption key respectively.
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The offset in the message header should be treated as a seek offset
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in the corresponding file.
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There are no ordering requirements for these messages.
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.Pp
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A
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.Nm
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is completed by sending the
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.Dv FINISHED
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message to the server.
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.Pp
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The following network drivers support netdump:
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.Xr alc 4 ,
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.Xr bge 4 ,
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.Xr bnxt 4 ,
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.Xr bxe 4 ,
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.Xr cxgb 4 ,
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.Xr em 4 ,
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.Xr igb 4 ,
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.Xr ix 4 ,
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.Xr ixl 4 ,
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.Xr mlx4en 4 ,
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.Xr re 4 ,
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.Xr vtnet 4 .
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.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
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The following variables are available as both
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variables and
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.Xr loader 8
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variables:
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.Bl -tag -width "indent"
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.It Va net.netdump.debug
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Control debug message verbosity.
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Debug messages are disabled by default, but are useful when troubleshooting
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or when developing driver support.
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.It Va net.netdump.path
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Specify a path relative to the server's dump directory in which to store
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the dump.
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For example, if the
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.Nm
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server is configured to store dumps in
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.Pa /var/crash ,
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a path of
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.Dq foo
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will cause the server to attempt to store dumps from the client in
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.Pa /var/crash/foo .
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The server will not automatically create the relative directory.
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.It Va net.netdump.polls
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The client will poll the configured network interface while waiting for
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acknowledgements.
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This parameter controls the maximum number of poll attempts before giving
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up, which typically results in a re-transmit.
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Each poll attempt takes 0.5ms.
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.It Va net.netdump.retries
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The number of times the client will re-transmit a packet before aborting
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a dump due to a lack of acknowledgement.
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The default may be too small in environments with lots of packet loss.
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.It Va net.netdump.arp_retries
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The number of times the client will attempt to learn the MAC address of
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the configured gateway or server before giving up and aborting the dump.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr decryptcore 8 ,
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.Xr dumpon 8 ,
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.Xr savecore 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm
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client support first appeared in
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.Fx 12.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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Only IPv4 is supported.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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may only be used after the kernel has panicked.
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