From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Morgan Nelson Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:48:05 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] netlink api Message-Id: <41193485.9020705@argontech.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hey all, I'm looking for more detailed info on the netlink api. I've read Andi Kleen's man pages (which describe themselves as lacking and incomplete), rfc3549 -- Linux Netlink as an IP Services Protocol (which was a nice general overview, but lacking in implementation detail), both the iproute2/ip/tc source and the kernel source (which have no usable documentation/comments), etc. Andi's man pages and rfc3549 were a great help in getting into the basics of the netlink api, but I can't seem to find anything more specific about the RTA TLV's, order of RTA's, which RTA's are optional, which are required, etc. I'm thinking about writing a C++ library for netlink sockets, but I don't necessarily want to spend the next 6 months wading through kernel source to figure out that I had a single param wrong somewhere. I'd also be happy to compile a howto/tutorial/spec for others to use, if I could just get the info. Would anybody be interested in this? I'm more than happy to RTFM, but I need to know which fine manual to read. Please, any pointer would be greatly appreciated. Morgan _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/