[luau] CONFIG_RTNETLINK -- Linux kernel configuration option

[Dennis T. Ching]

Um, how come I don't have this "Kernel/User netlink socket" under my "Networking options"?  I ran make menuconfig on both 2.4.18-3 and 2.4.20.

--Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vince Hoang" <luau at ml.altern8.net>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [luau] CONFIG_RTNETLINK -- Linux kernel configuration option


> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:38:08AM -1000, Dennis T. Ching wrote:
> > Does anyone have a clue what CONFIG_RTNETLINK is about, or how
> > to find out? I couldn't find any Help in make menuconfig or
> > make xconfig, on Red Hat 7.3, nor in any of its documentation.
> 
> Via `make menuconfig` on a 2.4 kernel source tree:
>   Networing options --->
>   [*] Kernel/User netlink socket
>   [*]   Routing messages
> 
> The help exists within the configuration tool, but is brief:
> 
>   "If you say Y here, userspace programs can receive some network
>   related routing information over the netlink. 'rtmon', supplied
>   with the iproute2 package (ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru), can read and
>   interpret this data. Information sent to the kernel over this
>   link is ignored."
> 
> You might want become acquainted with "The Linux Kernel HOWTO":
>   http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
> 
> -Vince
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