Routing Library (libnl-route)
Modules | |
| Addresses | |
| FIB Lookup | |
| Links (Interfaces) | |
| Neighbour Tables | |
| Neighbours | |
| The neighbour table establishes bindings between protocol addresses and link layer addresses for hosts sharing the same physical link. | |
| Netconf | |
| Routing | |
| Routing Rules | |
| Traffic Control | |
Routing Type Translations | |
| char * | nl_rtntype2str (int type, char *buf, size_t size) |
| int | nl_str2rtntype (const char *name) |
Scope Translations | |
| char * | rtnl_scope2str (int scope, char *buf, size_t size) |
| int | rtnl_str2scope (const char *name) |
Sending | |
| int | nl_rtgen_request (struct nl_sock *sk, int type, int family, int flags) |
| Send routing netlink request message. More... | |
Realms Translations | |
| char * | rtnl_realms2str (uint32_t realms, char *buf, size_t len) |
Realms | |
| #define | RTNL_REALM_MASK (0xFFFF) |
| Mask specying the size of each realm part. More... | |
| #define | RTNL_REALM_FROM(realm) ((realm) >> 16) |
| Extract FROM realm from a realms field. More... | |
| #define | RTNL_REALM_TO(realm) ((realm) & RTNL_REALM_MASK) |
| Extract TO realm from a realms field. More... | |
| #define | RTNL_MAKE_REALM(from, to) ((RTNL_REALM_TO(from) << 16) & RTNL_REALM_TO(to)) |
| Build a realms field. More... | |
Detailed Description
Macro Definition Documentation
◆ RTNL_REALM_MASK
| #define RTNL_REALM_MASK (0xFFFF) |
◆ RTNL_REALM_FROM
| #define RTNL_REALM_FROM | ( | realm | ) | ((realm) >> 16) |
◆ RTNL_REALM_TO
| #define RTNL_REALM_TO | ( | realm | ) | ((realm) & RTNL_REALM_MASK) |
◆ RTNL_MAKE_REALM
| #define RTNL_MAKE_REALM | ( | from, | |
| to | |||
| ) | ((RTNL_REALM_TO(from) << 16) & RTNL_REALM_TO(to)) |
Function Documentation
◆ nl_rtgen_request()
| int nl_rtgen_request | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk, |
| int | type, | ||
| int | family, | ||
| int | flags | ||
| ) |
Send routing netlink request message.
- Parameters
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sk Netlink socket. type Netlink message type. family Address family. flags Additional netlink message flags.
Fills out a routing netlink request message and sends it out using nl_send_simple().
- Returns
- 0 on success or a negative error code. Due to a bug in older version of the library, this function returned the number of bytes sent. Treat any non-negative number as success.
Definition at line 35 of file rtnl.c.
References nl_send_simple().
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