RE: Clarification on rtnetlink requests

2015-08-19 Thread Anish Bhatt
> -Original Message- > From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of David Chappelle > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8:05 AM > To: netdev@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Clarification on rtnetlink requests > > I am a bit

Clarification on rtnetlink requests

2015-08-19 Thread David Chappelle
I am a bit confused with respect to the structure of rtnetlink requests. It seems that in some circumstances a request can look like: struct request { struct nlmsghdr header; struct rtgenmsg body; }; and in other cases it can look like: struct request {