On 8/26/16, 8:52 AM, David Lebrun wrote:
> This patch adds the necessary hooks and structures to provide support
> for SR-IPv6 control plane, essentially the Generic Netlink commands
> that will be used for userspace control over the Segment Routing
> kernel structures.
>
> The genetlink commands provide control over two different structures:
> tunnel source and HMAC data. The tunnel source is the source address
> that will be used by default when encapsulating packets into an
> outer IPv6 header + SRH. If the tunnel source is set to :: then an
> address of the outgoing interface will be selected as the source.
>
> The HMAC commands currently just return ENOTSUPP and will be implemented
> in a future patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Lebrun <david.leb...@uclouvain.be>
>
This looks fine. But, i am just trying to see if this can be rtnetlink.
Have you considered it already ?.
We would like to keep the API consistent or abstracted to accommodate SR-MPLS 
in the
future too. so, any abstraction there will help.

what is your control-plane software using this ?
quagga or any-other routing daemon ?

Thanks,
Roopa

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