Here is a piece of a thread I had with a guy about netlink sockets. If his documentation is still there it was very helpful for me. Good luck! ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Netlink Implementation. Date: Monday 06 December 2004 06:25 am From: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx> To: eric@xxxxxxxx Eric Bambach wrote: > On Saturday 04 December 2004 07:30 am, Neil Horman wrote: >>Eric Bambach wrote: >>>On Thursday 21 October 2004 06:49 am, you wrote: >>> >>>---snip------ >>> >>>>If it helps, I've been trying to spend some time working on a whitepaper >>>>for netlink sockets. Its nowhere near complete but if it helps you out: >>>> >>>>http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/netlink.pdf >>>> >>>>Neil >>> >>>J/W , do you have any plans to complete the above paper? Is there an >>>updated version available? I am still troubled by my inability to grasp >>>netlink sockets and besides the RFC's, your paper was the most helpful >>>document I could dig up. >> >>Its a part time project for me, but yes I try to work on it in bits and >>pieces, and I want to fonish it. I have a few updates (minor ones). >>I'll let you know as soon as I post them (probably monday). >> >>Neil >> >>P.S. Is there any topic you are particularly curios abou. I can try to >>focus on that first > > Since you asked, I am most interested in the Route, and Getlink parts, > however I wouldn't dare ask you to focus on anything for me. The project I > am working on is also very spare time and I would feel bad if I didn't get > around to using an updated version of your document for another several > weeks. Version 0.3 of the paper is up at: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers And contains some info on the NETLINK_ROUTE protocol suite, and details the RTM_[NEW|DEL|GET]LINK messages. Neil -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/ ------------------------------------------------------- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
