From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: sampath kumar <sampath.in@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: Question regarding linux networking
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:09:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610110901.GC2673@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090610063749.GA2673@ff.dom.local>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:37:49AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:50:09PM +0530, sampath kumar wrote:
...
> > I'm trying to use/understand linux networking code. Say for example decnet,
> > phonet etc, in order to register a device we need to send an RTM_NEWADDR msg
> > to the kernel.
> >
> > do I've to send it from kernel space or user space ? If I check the code of
> > decnet or phonet, each have registered using rtnl_register an addr_doit func
> > after reception of RTM_NEWADDR msg. how do i send this msg and from where ??
You can send it both from kernel and user space. For user space
usage have a look at iproute2 sources. And here is a general
description: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/netlink.pdf
Jarek P.
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