[LARTC] Accessing TC objects via netlink interface

[Michal Charvat]

When I started programming, I had same question. Where is the
documentation...

man pages are poor - incomplete

try:

http://qos.ittc.ku.edu/netlink/html/

That paper talks about rtnetlink messages in order to modify routing
table, but creating of qdiscs, filters and classes is similar. Ale my
knowledge is from reading tc utility source :-(

Michal Charvat
Prokon R.B.S. Louny v.o.s.


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:

> raj:
>
> This is one of the most sparsely documented parts of linux.  The only
> places I know of are:
>
> man 3 netlink
> man 7 netlink
> man 3 rtnetlink
> man 7 rtnetlink
> the kernel source
> in man netlink, you find a reference to
> ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip=E2=80=90routing/iproute2* for libnetlink
>
> The code is clearly designed to be as efficient as possible, and much of
> the protocol involves context, which makes it quite difficult to figure
> out.  OTOH, you can do things with linux/netlink which would require
> kernel mods with any other operating system, so I'm just glad it's
> there.
>
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 07:23, rajkumars@asianetindia.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While going through the README of Michal's SNMP extension, he collects =
stats using netlink interface. Is their any howto or other docs to learn ho=
w it works?
> >
> > raj
> >
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