Type of communication

[Czarek Kowalski]

Hello,

could you tell me what type of communication (C interface or shell) pyroute2 uses?

Best regards

Czarek

[Peter Saveliev]

Hello, Czarek!

It depends on the operating system and the functionality — it differs.

• On Linux systems it uses AF_NETLINK sockets to communicate with the kernel. Some specific functionality is done via syscall() (netns) or ioctl() (tun/tap).
• On BSD systems (very basic read-only support) it uses PF_ROUTE sockets to monitor the system and shell commands to retrieve network settings
• On Windows systems (only proof of concept, not supported really) it uses WinAPI via FFI

Towards users it provides Python API and shell stdio (pyroute2-cli, only limited subset)

st 18. 3. 2020 v 17:57 odesílatel Czarek Kowalski <surr...@gmail.com> napsal:

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