netdev - Re: Generic user-space routing library -- need collaborator

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:09:08 -0400
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>
To:	Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@...fish-solutions.com>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generic user-space routing library -- need collaborator

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 01:39:24PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm working on adding a few more portability classes to Poco (a multi-platform C++ toolkit) and wanted to add a Net::Routing class for examining and manipulating the routing tables.
> 
> The C++ would just be convenience wrappers around a core C library that handles the netlink semantics. I've looked at libmnl and it's handy, but I need a higher level of abstraction (for instance, parsing an RTA_NETMASK for IPv6 is anything but well-documented).

You want to look at libnl. It's similiar to libmnl but provides a higher
level of abstraction. It implements routing, netfilter and generic
netlink parsing and message construction.

http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/

You should be able to easily construct C++ wrappers around the lib.

~Thomas
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