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

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

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> > 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'm sorry you don't like my manpages.
Make no mistake. I do like them. I am relying on them now. I just need more 
explanation and examples.

> I also wrote some manpages on libnetlink, but for some reason they were
> never merged in the main distribution so you can only find them in the SuSE
> rpm or at http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/man/libnetlink.3.gz (source) or
> http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/man/libnetlink.3.txt (formatted manpage)
Thanks.
> Jamal Hadi wrote a ietf draft on netlink.  I don't know if it's publicly
> available (if yes probably somewhere on ftp.ietf.org) it describes quite
> a lot of basic concepts in netlink/rtnetlink although in a bit foreign
> to linux terminology.
Thanks again. Found it at 
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-forces-netlink-03.txt

> I also did a presentation on netlink and related topics at previous to
> last year's Ottawa Linux symposium which may be also helpful. The slides
> are at http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/ols/OLSpres.htm
Its all coming together. Thanks again.

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