Hi, I've been working on trying to get Netlink sockets to work for the 3.2 linux kernel, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do it. I have looked around for examples of the basics of Netlink soc...

I want to know the value of m flag and o flag of recently received Router Advertisement. From the kernel source code I came to know that m flag and o flag are stored. /* * Remember the managed/o...

I have doubt about the functioning of netlink socket in kernel-application interaction context. As I have read that netlink socket is used for event based notification from kernel to application. T...

I'm writing multicast client/server application based on this and this; which work great. However, I would also need to do something when the number of active network interfaces in the computer ch...

I am using Linux and trying to figure out how to query (via an API) the NDP table for a specific entry. The only example I have found so far (in the source for iproute2) uses Netlink and gets the e...

I'm trying to monitor route changes with netlink socket, but how should I get the updated route address ? Code: #include <sys/socket.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #i...

My application does not break during Runtime. However, the following error messages always show up NetlinkListener: ignoring non-kernel netlink multicast message NetlinkEvent: NetlinkEvent::Fin...

As all know, netlink it's user/kernel space communication mechanism. I want to communicate from my kernel module to an another. Another kernel module already has the netlink interface. Is it poss...

How can I use a NETLINK socket to data from kernel space in PYTHON?

Does anybody know equivalent for NETLINK Sockets API for MAC OS X ? I am trying to port Linux application to MAC OS X and I couldn’t find anything similar in MACOS. I need to provide asynchronous...