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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:04:52 +0200
From:   Alexis JANIAK <alexis.janiak@rd.francetelecom.fr>
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Subject: documentation on netlink sockets
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Hi,

I'm a french student in computer science in training periode (this is my
last year of studies), and i'm working on mpls over atm under GNU/Linux. 
And i need to read the routing database of the kernel. I see in zebra's 
code that they use netlink socket to do this. But i couldn't find some
doc about the use of netlink (which seem to be specific to Linux)
although i 
looked in the Linux Documentation Project, in the "unix network
programming" and in the "TCP/IP illustrated Vol 2", but they didn't talk
about
netlink socket. I try to read the sources, but without some doc, it's
very hard for me
understand how it's working. I wrote to alan cox who gave me your
e-mail. Could
help me ? Do you know some books, web sites, news group or anything else
that might help
me ?
That would be a great help for me if you could give me some indications.

Thanks

Alexis JANIAK 
3rd year student in computer science at ENSSAT
(Ecole Nationale Superieure de Science Appliquee et de Technologie)
Lannion - France