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Guys,
I've been thinking about this past few days and thought I'd ask here.
Is it possible to create bridge device using rtnetlink interface ?
I've tried to go through iproute package source but got a bit overwhelmed and confused.
Could someone give me a hint how to go about it ?
I had a look at bridge utils source but that one literally uses direct syscalls.
What I'm after is rtnetlink thingy which would correspond to:

ip link add name mybridge type bridge

Any advice/hints would be very appreciated!
thanks