On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 01:17 +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote: > So I have some FreeBSD support using PF_ROUTE sockets. It is possible > to show the routing table, and soon it will support addition and > deletion of routes. At the same time I am reworking the Linux backend > to use libnl instead of directly mucking with PF_NETLINK. > > My private tree is available here: > git://bombadil.infradead.org/~rishi/inetutils.git (see libroute/ and > route/) At the moment it is quite out of date with my working > directory. :-) > > It would be very helpful if someon could enlist the basic > functionality that NetworkManager would need from a library that > abstracts out different kernels' interfaces. It looks to that atleast > the following are needed: > + flush > + add > + delete > + monitor
If by 'monitor' you mean enumerate, then yes. This applies to _both_ addresses and routes. NM also uses netlink for interface flag changes like carrier state, but that may be out of the scope of libroute. It looks like you're hand-rolling netlink code though; any reason you can't back the Linux stuff with libnl since Thomas already wrote all that stuff already? I'd actually rather just link to libnl on Linux and libroute on *BSD I think, abstracting the two inside NM. Because unless you want to basically copy the functionality of libnl into libroute (which might take a while) it's probably easier to just abstract it in NM. > Anything else? > > Since GNU Inetutils is under GPLv3+ the license notices mention it, > but I am planning to mark 'libroute' as LGPLv3+ to make it easy for > GPLv2+ programs like NetworkManager to use it. It could also be GPLv2+ and I think you'd be fine :) Your call. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
