Deprecated the functions rtnl_qdisc_change() and
rtnl_qdisc_build_change_request() for their lack of being able to
specify flags. The new functions rtnl_qdisc_update() and
rtnl_qdisc_build_update_request() may be used instead. The old
functions are still available though. However, rtnl_qdisc_update()
no longer implies NLM_F_REPLACE, it has to specified implicitely
to allow updating a qdisc without risking to replace another qdisc.
Included detailed documentation of qdisc addition/update/deletion.
Introduced APPBUG() macro to let application developer know of
API abuse.
Their usage is not completely safe, it is not possible to handle
the out of memory situation of the allocate filter. It is very
unlikely for this to cause any problem though.
The functions are still accessible but gcc will warn about their
deprecation.
Finally got rid of all the qdisc/class/cls code duplication in
the tc module API. The API takes care of allocation/freeing the
tc object specific data.
I hope I got it right this time.
Note: The code for this is not upstream yet.
Extends the link api to allow address family modules to fill a link
message and implements a AF_INET address family link module which
uses the new interface.
This feature isn't upstream yet. It's required to test a patch in
my local tree.
Makes the link parser understand IFLA_AF_SPEC and call the address
family specific parser.
Adds a family argument which allows to request link dumps for a certain
address family. This allows to f.e. dump ipv6 specific statistics and data.
nl-link-list --family inet6
Introduces a new API to handle address familiy specific link data such as
IFLA_PROTINFO. It provides entry hooks for parsing IFLA_PROTINFO attributes
and allows to include the parsed data when a link object is dumped.
- parse IFLA_IFALIAS if available
- provides API to access/change ifalias
rtnl_link_get_ifalias(link)
rtnl_link_set_ifalias(link, alias)
- extends nl-link-set to test functionality
Manually editing etc/libnl/classid before adding tc objects is a pain.
This patch adds code to attempt auto generating a unique tc id which
will then be assigned to the provided name and added to the classid
file.
This will make the following commands work with prior definitions of
the names "top" and "test"
sudo sbin/nl-qdisc-add --dev eth0 --parent root --id top htb
sudo sbin/nl-class-add --dev eth0 --parent top --id test htb --rate 100mbit
It will generate the following ids automatically:
4001: top
4001:1 test
- Fixes a bunch of bugs related to ematches
- Adds support for the nbyte ematch
- Adds a bison/flex parser for ematch expressions, expressions
may look like this:
ip.length > 256 && pattern(ip6.src = 3ffe::/16)
documenation on syntax follows
- adds ematch support to the basic classifier (--ematch EXPR)
This patch includes various bugfixes in the packet location parser.
Namely it removes two memory leaks if parsing fails. The parser is
correctly quit if an allocation error occurs and it is no longer
possible to add duplicates.
It removes the possibility to differ between net and host byteorder.
This is better done in the actual classifiers as it makes more sense
to specify this together with the value to compare against.
The patch also extends the API to add new packet locations via
rtnl_pktloc_add().
It introduces reference counting, therefore you now have to give
back packet locations with rtnl_pktloc_put() after looking them up
with rtnl_pktloc_lookup(). But you are allowed to keep using them
if the packet location file has been reread.
The packet location file now also understands "eth", "ip", and
"tcp" for "link", "net", and "transport".
A --list option has been added to nl-pktloc-lookup to list all
packet location definitions
A --u32=VALUE option has been added to let nl-pktloc-lookup print
the definition in iproute2's u32 selector style.
A manual page has been written for nl-pktloc-lookup.
Finally, nl-pktloc-lookup has been made installable.
So far all common tc atttributes were accessed via specific functions, i.e.
rtnl_class_set_parent(), rtnl_qdisc_set_parent(), rtnl_cls_set_parent()
which implied a lot of code duplication. Since all tc objects are derived
from struct rtnl_tc and these common attributes are already stored in there
this patch removes all type specific functions and makes rtnl_tc_* attribute
functions public.
rtnl_qdisc_set_parent(qdisc, 10);
becomes:
rtnl_tc_set_parent((struct rtnl_tc *) qdisc, 10);
This patch also adds the following new attributes to tc objects therefore
removing them as tc specific attributes:
- mtu
- mpu
- overhead
This allows for the rate table calculations to be unified as well taking into
account the new kernel behavior to take care of overhead automatically.
A database to resolve qdisc/class names to classid values and vice versa.
The function rtnl_tc_handle2str() and rtnl_tc_str2handle() will resolve
names automatically.
A CLI based tool nl-classid-lookup is provided to integrate the database
into existing iproute2 scripts.
The idea of a common handle is long revised and only misleading,
nl_handle really represents a socket with some additional
action handlers assigned to it.
Alias for nl_handle is kept for backwards compatibility.
In order for the interface to become more thread safe, the error
handling was revised to no longer depend on a static errno and
error string buffer.
This patch converts all error paths to return a libnl specific
error code which can be translated to a error message using
nl_geterror(int error). The functions nl_error() and
nl_get_errno() are therefore obsolete.
This change required various sets of function prototypes to be
changed in order to return an error code, the most prominent
are:
struct nl_cache *foo_alloc_cache(...);
changed to:
int foo_alloc_cache(..., struct nl_cache **);
struct nl_msg *foo_build_request(...);
changed to:
int foo_build_request(..., struct nl_msg **);
struct foo *foo_parse(...);
changed to:
int foo_parse(..., struct foo **);
This pretty much only leaves trivial allocation functions to
still return a pointer object which can still return NULL to
signal out of memory.
This change is a serious API and ABI breaker, sorry!
Added rtnl_route_foreach_nexthop() to walk the list of nexthops invoking a
caller-provided callback for each nexthop entry, and added rtnl_route_nexthop_n()
to retrieve the Nth nexthop entry in the list.
This changesets adds the possibility to fill a nl_cache with
the contents of the route cache. It also adds the possibility
to limit route caches to certain address families.
