[mpls-linux-general] Re: Asking for materials on netlink socket programming

[Manish K. <ka...@is...>]

Hanxi,


you should check out this introduction to netlink at:

http://qos.ittc.ku.edu/netlink/netlink.pdf   (dated: 1999)

manish


> FROM: Hanxi ZhangDATE: 11/26/2001 09:38:15SUBJECT:  [mpls-linux-general]
> Asking for materials on netlink socket programming 
> Hi All:
>
> Could any of you refer me to any good tutorials on netlink socket
> programming/
> ioctl call that are used in mplsadm? I went through mplsadm.c and
> netlink.c,
> but I don't totally understand how a AF_INET socket is related to a
> AF_NETLINK
> socket.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
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