On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 2010-12-09 13:08, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> >>If we follow the one message per rule basis, you can put several >>messages into one batch with different sequence numbers. Thus, you can >>know what message in the batch has triggered the error and the reason. > > /* The unwritten laws of netlink */ > > Normally, the sequence number of a response message is simply > the one from the request message. But in a dump where there > can be multiple messages, do they all share the sequence number? > > Must the response sequence numbers match at all, or is it like TCP > where each side has its own set? > > BTW, can response messages - all those leading up to NLMSG_DONE - > have different nlmsg_type, or not? Does the nlmsg_type need > to match the request type? > There's an upper layer netlink flag set (NLM_F_MULTI , NLMSG_DONE, etc) that's usually used in NETLINK_ROUTE, etc. Essentially, you set the MULTI flag on multi-part messages, and DONE on the last one, clients are expected to collect and respond; In those cases, the sequence number does NOT change intra-messageset in my experience, instead it is assumed they may be received out of order. > Jan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
