Messages in this thread | | | From | Brad Hards <> | Subject | Re: of ethernet names (was [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:32:44 +1000 |
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:20, Paul Menage wrote: > In article <0C01A29FBAE24448A792F5C68F5EA47D29DD32@nasdaq.ms.ensim.com>, > > you write: > >Is there any documentation on the netlink API, beyond UTSL(iproute)? > >Reference would be good, but a tutorial would be ideal. > > The man pages for netlink(3), netlink(7), rtnetlink(3) and rtnetlink(7) > give a basic reference. Unfortunately my brain is not on the same level and scope as Alexey or davem.
I simply don't grok those pages. I also note caveats about incompleteness, and recommendation to use libnetlink, which is also not documented much.
I sometimes hack on zcip (see ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/zcip for an out of date version), and it could really use some netlink-ification. But I can't even follow enough of iproute (or zebra, which also uses netlink, AFAICT) to figure out how to do basic stuff like a list of configured networking devices, or set the default route.
Brad
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