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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Khawar Shehzad <shehzad.khawar@gmail.com>
Cc: "netfilter@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Programmatically adding Map element into the map/set using libnftnl
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:27:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161130212725.GA2576@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161130201434.GA24593@salvia>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:14:34PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 07:46:05PM +0000, Khawar Shehzad wrote:
> > Thanks. I want to add an element to existing ipv6 map programmatically
> > in C using libnftnl. From the above example commit, the code specifies
> > how to add a map (which I assessed by working on the
> > nft-set-elem-add.c example previously, thanks for the datatypes.c hint
> > too). I tried
> > 
> >         nftnl_set_elem_set(e, NFTNL_SET_ELEM_KEY, "fe80::2", 16);
> >         nftnl_set_elem_set(e, NFTNL_SET_ELEM_DATA, "fe80::3", 16);
> > 
> > AND
> > 
> >         nftnl_set_elem_set(e, NFTNL_SET_ELEM_KEY, &(sa1.sin6_addr),
> > sizeof(sa1.sin6_addr));
> >         nftnl_set_elem_set(e, NFTNL_SET_ELEM_DATA, &(sa2.sin6_addr),
> > sizeof(sa2.sin6_addr));
> > 
> > but both didn't work. It showed same error i.e. "error: Invalid argument".
> 
> Oh, those examples are broken. Batch header and trailing are missing,
> I'm going to fix this.

Just fixed examples to add set element:

http://git.netfilter.org/libnftnl/commit/?id=6a32dbd4cd56c8fede6044a447469fbd0e35c10a
http://git.netfilter.org/libnftnl/commit/?id=cc1b5986f5379c17c97ff9fb7064aceddf0b87ed

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-30 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-30 19:16 Programmatically adding Map element into the map/set using libnftnl Khawar Shehzad
2016-11-30 19:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-11-30 19:46   ` Khawar Shehzad
2016-11-30 20:14     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-11-30 21:27       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-11-30 22:17         ` Khawar Shehzad
2016-11-30 22:28           ` Khawar Shehzad
2016-11-30 22:32             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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