Title: Linux Netlink as an IP Services Protocol
Author(s): J. Salim, H. Khosravi, A. Kleen, A. Kuznetsov.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Jul 2003
Length: 72161
This document describes Linux Netlink, which is used in Linux both as an intra-kernel messaging system as well as between kernel and user space. The focus of this document is to describe Netlink's functionality as a protocol between a Forwarding Engine Component (FEC) and a Control Plane Component (CPC), the two components that define an IP service. As a result of this focus, this document ignores other uses of Netlink, including its use as a intra-kernel messaging system, as an inter-process communication scheme (IPC), or as a configuration tool for other non-networking or non-IP network services (such as decnet, etc.).
This document is intended as informational in the context of prior art for the ForCES IETF working group.
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