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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Dennis</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Vince Hoang" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:luau@ml.altern8.net"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>luau@ml.altern8.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu"><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:23
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: Re: [luau] CONFIG_RTNETLINK -- Linux
kernel configuration option</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:38:08AM -1000, Dennis T. Ching
wrote:<BR>> > Does anyone have a clue what CONFIG_RTNETLINK is about, or
how<BR>> > to find out? I couldn't find any Help in make menuconfig
or<BR>> > make xconfig, on Red Hat 7.3, nor in any of its
documentation.<BR>> <BR>> Via `make menuconfig` on a 2.4 kernel source
tree:<BR>> Networing options ---><BR>> [*] Kernel/User
netlink socket<BR>> [*] Routing messages<BR>> <BR>>
The help exists within the configuration tool, but is brief:<BR>> <BR>>
"If you say Y here, userspace programs can receive some network<BR>>
related routing information over the netlink. 'rtmon', supplied<BR>>
with the iproute2 package (</FONT><A href="ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>), can
read and<BR>> interpret this data. Information sent to the kernel over
this<BR>> link is ignored."<BR>> <BR>> You might want become
acquainted with "The Linux Kernel HOWTO":<BR>> </FONT><A
href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>> <BR>> -Vince<BR>>
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