Re: Application API to networking commands

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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:05:35PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2002-09@lina.inka.de>
>    Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:57:58 +0100
>    
>    there is no API besides the ioctl() and netdec or /prox files which are used
>    by those tools.
>    
>    (Unfortunatelly)
> 
> There are netlink sockets, you totally did not mention those :-)
> AF_NETLINK socket support is always built into the kernel these days.

well the "netdec" was supposed to mean netdev and that in turn was supposed
to mean netlink :) It is still not an stable/simple API.

Gruss
Bernd
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