From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Julius Volz" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS. Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:33:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48501C81.6010800@trash.net> <48503BBD.6000307@google.com> <485043E6.5030105@candelatech.com> <485050FE.6030209@google.com> <20080612014548.GE22358@verge.net.au> <485126BD.7030109@trash.net> <485144DF.3030102@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Simon Horman" , "Vince Busam" , "Ben Greear" , lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Patrick McHardy" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <485144DF.3030102@trash.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: lvs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Julius Volz wrote: >> Ah, that's what I thought... Are there any simple kernel examples with >> userspace counterparts to look at? I know iproute2 uses netlink, but >> it seems like a rather complicated example. > > For nfnetlink: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c and > libnfnetlink_conntrack from git.netfilter.org. Thanks! >> Genetlink seems especially nice, although I couldn't find a general >> explanation of it other than in git history. > > I don't have an example for genetlink, but I guess you should > find some in libnl. In this case I guess both would be fine > since ipvs is only loosely tied to the rest of netfilter. Ok, my first impression is that genetlink is aimed at being simple to use (and has a nice howto). So we'll work on a genetlink interface and some of the other v6 patch issues and then post again in a while. Thanks for the feedback! Horms: ping if you're interested or have some good ideas for this. Julius -- Google Switzerland GmbH