DESCRIPTION
The ngctl utility creates a new netgraph node of type socket which can be used to issue netgraph commands. If no -f flag is given, no command is supplied on the command line, and standard input is a tty, ngctl will enter interactive mode. Otherwise ngctl will execute the supplied command(s) and exit immediately. Nodes can be created, removed, joined together, etc. ASCII formatted control messages can be sent to any node if that node supports binary/ASCII control message conversion.
In interactive mode, ngctl will display any control messages and data packets received by the socket node. In the case of control messages, the message arguments are displayed in ASCII form if the originating node supports conversion.
The options are as follows: