Re: of ethernet names (was [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous

[Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>]

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for an out of date version), and it could really use some netlink-ification.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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