From 7ba212c6e4acbac004fa51d6d8174f1e3f40ee6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Sune Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:43:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: add libnl (Netlink) This commit adds `libnl` Netlink library to the networking section, and points the link to the offical page of `libnl` (github repository links on that page). --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 73de647..f158dc7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -662,6 +662,10 @@ comprehensive and high-level, you may want the Web Frameworks section. specifications. [``GPL-3.0-or-later``][GPL-3.0-or-later] * [libmicrohttpd][165] - Small library that makes it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. [``LGPL-2.1-or-later``][LGPL-2.1-or-later] +* [libnl][582] - `libnl` is a collection of libraries to provie APIs to the + Netlink protocol (replacement for ioctl). It's primary use is to communicate + with the Linux kernel, to modify networking state (interfaces, routing etc...). + [``LGPL-2.1-only``][LGPL-2.1-only] * [libonion][170] - HTTP server library, designed to be easy to use. [``Apache-2.0``][Apache-2.0] * [libpcap][566] - API provides to various kernel packet capture mechanism. [``BSD-3-Clause``][BSD-3-Clause] @@ -1724,3 +1728,4 @@ support for C. [579]: https://github.com/silgy/silgy [580]: https://github.com/small-c/obj.h [581]: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq +[582]: https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/