From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: bu.kernel@gmail.com (Bhaskar Upadhyayula)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:55:43 -0700
Subject: Questions on Netlink sockets
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Hello,

I want to check with the group if this is right mailing list to post
my question.

Here is what I am doing.

+ From a user-space program, mimicking the behavior of creating a VLAN
interface when we execute the following ip command:
    $ ip link add name <vlan-intf-name> link <parent-intf-name> type
vlan id <id>

Example: $ ip link add name dummy.110 link dummy type vlan id 110

+ My program open's a netlink socket and sends information to kernel
(interface names, vlan tags etc). My code more or less follows the
code in iproute2/ip/iplink.c

+ My code is not creating VLAN interface as executed by the 'ip link
...' command.

I have a few questions around this and can post my code, if required.

But please let me know if this is right mailing list or should I post
on netdev list (which I feel is for advanced network questions).

Thx.