Using rtnl_route_get_metric() for route comparison became a bottleneck
because each metric which was not available resulted in the generation
of an error message. This changeset avoids this by accessing rt_metrics
and rt_metrics_mask directly while comparing route objects.
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.
New netem-related functionality:
Added ability to save new settings to the kernel. In netem.c, the
netem_get_opts() stub has been replaced with netem_build_msg() which
manipulates the nl_msg data directly and returns an error code instead
of a new nl_msg. Modifications to qdisc_build() in qdisc.c and struct
rtnl_qdisc_ops were necessary for this.
Added support for getting/setting corruption probability/correlation.
Added support for setting a delay distribution.
Fixed tbf_msg_parser() to call tbf_alloc() instead of tbf_qdisc() to
prevent a seg fault.
Adds all missing routing attributes and brings the routing
related code to a working state. In the process the API
was broken several times with the justification that nobody
is using this code yet.
The changes include new example code which is also a prototype
for how plain CLI tools could look like to control routes.
So far the destination address for default routes was NULL
which complicated the handling of routes in general. By
assigning a address of length zero they can be compared
to each other.
This allows the cache manager to properly handle default
routes.
This interface was internal so far which required all code defining
caches to be compiled with the sources available.
In order to simplify the interface, the co_msg_parser prototype was
changed to take the struct nl_parser_param directly instead of a
void *. It used to be void * because the co_msg_parser was directly
passed as the NL_CB_VALID callback function.
