Bug#286847: ITP: libnl -- library for applications dealing with netlink socket
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libnl
Version : 0.4.2
Upstream Author : Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
* URL : http://www.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/
* License : LGPL
Description : library for applications dealing with netlink socket
libnl is a library for applications dealing with netlink socket. It
provides an easy to use interface for raw netlink message but also
netlink family specific APIs.
* Sending/Receiving of netlink messages with support for sequence
numbers and callbacks to adjust behaviour of parser and help
debugging.
* Generic cache interface holding items for all netlink users.
* Message parsers for all supported netlink users that store into caches
* Static structs exporting netlink user data to the application
* Dumping routines for all supported netlink users to allow easy dumping
of whole caches or single entries
* Character string from/to type number transformation routines
* Netlink user specific APIs (i.e. change link attributes,
add/delete/change neighbour, etc.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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