Um, how come I don't have this "Kernel/User netlink
socket" under my "Networking options"? I ran make menuconfig on both
2.4.18-3 and 2.4.20.
--Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vince Hoang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:23
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Subject: Re: [luau] CONFIG_RTNETLINK -- Linux
kernel configuration option
> > 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
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