From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/3] packet: nlmon: virtual netlink monitoring device for packet sockets Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:59:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20130619115941.34fc425e@samsung-9> References: <1371665086-19677-1-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> <1371665086-19677-4-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Borkmann Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f176.google.com ([209.85.192.176]:64545 "EHLO mail-pd0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757385Ab3FSS7p (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:59:45 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f176.google.com with SMTP id t12so5343287pdi.7 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1371665086-19677-4-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:04:46 +0200 Daniel Borkmann wrote: > Currently, there is no good possibility to debug netlink traffic that > is being exchanged between kernel and user space. Therefore, this patch > implements a netlink virtual device, so that netlink messages will be > made visible to PF_PACKET sockets. Once there was an approach with a > similar idea [1], but it got forgotten somehow. ip monitor all