On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:45:32PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:36:26 +0100 (MET)
> Ramon Casellas <casellas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > We're working in porting mpls for linux to 2.6 and one of the planned
> > features is to move from an IOCTL based approach to a Netlink based one
> > for updating/querying the MPLS FTN/ILM/Label Mapping/... tables from
> > userspace. Since netlink families are public, I would
> > like to know if it is possible to reserve a family for MPLS, even though
> > the MPLS patch is not part of the official kernel.
>
> You don't need a whole new netlink family. Just create a dummy
> address family for MPLS (ie. AF_MPLS) and then just use
> NETLINK_ROUTE.
Agreed. One could also use AF_MPLS for applications to register for
data associated with the router alert label. I suppose one
could also go completly nuts and allow an application to open stream
connection that talks and listens on a specific label, but I think
that is a bit overboard.
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James R. Leu
jleu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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