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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iproute: Add route showdump command (v2)
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:05:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120727100557.6c60ac58@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50122FD7.2060701@parallels.com>

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:06:15 +0400
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> wrote:

> I mean something like the below, just put the RTM_GETADDR stream into a
> file and push it back into the kernel as is. It worked for me in trivial
> cases, but is this approach correct generically?

It is supposed to always work to reverse netlink messages back to the kernel.
There a couple of caveats:
 1. Some fields like statistics are just ignored by the kernel and can never
    be reset.
 2. The feature isn't commonly used and it is always possible that it will
    expose a kernel bug.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-27 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-27  4:55 [PATCH 1/2] iproute: Add magic cookie to route dump file Pavel Emelyanov
2012-07-27  4:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] iproute: Add route showdump command (v2) Pavel Emelyanov
2012-07-27  5:03   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-07-27  6:06     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-07-27 17:05       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-09-11 15:47     ` [PATCH] iproute: Add ability to save, restore and show the interfaces' addresses (resend) Pavel Emelyanov
2012-09-11 16:18       ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-09-07 16:14   ` [PATCH 2/2] iproute: Add route showdump command (v2) Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-27 10:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] iproute: Add magic cookie to route dump file David Laight
2012-07-27 13:35   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-07-27 16:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-17 20:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-20  8:05   ` Pavel Emelyanov

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