.TH PMC 8 "November 2012" "linuxptp"
.SH NAME
pmc \- PTP management client

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pmc
[
.B \-2
|
.B \-4
|
.B \-6
|
.B \-u
] [
.BI \-b " boundary-hops"
] [
.BI \-d " domain-number"
] [
.BI \-i " interface"
] [
.BI \-t " transport-specific-field"
]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B pmc
is a program which implements a PTP management client according to IEEE
standard 1588. The program reads from the standard input actions specified by
name and management ID, sends them over the selected transport and prints any
received replies. There are three actions supported: 
.B GET
retrieves the specified information,
.B SET
updates the specified information and
.B CMD
(or
.BR COMMAND )
initiates the specified event.

Command
.B help
can be used to get a list of supported actions and management IDs.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-2
Select the IEEE 802.3 network transport.
.TP
.B \-4
Select the UDP IPv4 network transport. This is the default transport.
.TP
.B \-6
Select the UDP IPv6 network transport.
.TP
.B \-u
Select the Unix Domain Socket transport.
.TP
.BI \-b " boundary-hops"
Specify the boundary hops value in sent messages. The default is 1.
.TP
.BI \-d " domain-number"
Specify the domain number in sent messages. The default is 0.
.TP
.BI \-i " interface"
Specify the network interface. The default is /tmp/pmc for the Unix Domain
Socket transport and eth0 for the other transports.
.TP
.BI \-t " transport-specific-field"
Specify the transport specific field in sent messages as a hexadecimal number.
The default is 0x0.
.TP
.B \-h
Display a help message.

.SH MANAGEMENT IDS

.TP
.B CURRENT_DATA_SET
.TP
.B TIME_STATUS_NP
.TP
.B NULL_MANAGEMENT

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ptp4l (8)