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Netlink Module
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Fri Oct 27 09:29:17 1995
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 00:29:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I was just reading the source for the Netlink module. I was wondering
what it was and since there is no readme.... Anyway I gather thats a
new device to experiment with the networking stuff. From what I see
one could make a new loadable module for some protocol X, attach it
to one of the minor device numbers. Then a user process can open and read
and write to this device. Iam assuming this is done so the person
experimenting with the new protocol does not have to fiddle with the
socket code.
Iam I compleatly off the mark? Anyone care to enlighten me?
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