On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:38:08AM -1000, Dennis T. Ching wrote: > Does anyone have a clue what CONFIG_RTNETLINK is about, or how > to find out? I couldn't find any Help in make menuconfig or > make xconfig, on Red Hat 7.3, nor in any of its documentation.
Via `make menuconfig` on a 2.4 kernel source tree: Networing options ---> [*] Kernel/User netlink socket [*] Routing messages The help exists within the configuration tool, but is brief: "If you say Y here, userspace programs can receive some network related routing information over the netlink. 'rtmon', supplied with the iproute2 package (ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru), can read and interpret this data. Information sent to the kernel over this link is ignored." You might want become acquainted with "The Linux Kernel HOWTO": http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html -Vince
