Re: Re: howto setup a route by netlink socket

["C.J" <c.james.cj@gmail.com>]

Hi James Chapman

>>
>James Cameron wrote:
>> You could look at the ip(8) command source to find out how it is done,
>> /sbin/ip or /bin/ip is part of the iproute package on Red Hat and Debian
>> based Linux distributions.

>The ip command uses libnetlink, but there's a new netlink library that 
>is much easier to use. It's called libnl, at 
>http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/. It includes simple apps that do 
>common things like add routes. Binary packages are available for modern 
>distros.

>> Latest version of pptp has a hack that uses system(3) to execute ip(8).
>> If you can figure a way to do this without using system(3) then I'm
>> quite interested.

Thanks a lot, I'll try.

Reg

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c.j