libnl and IPsec/XFRM

Karl Hiramoto karl at hiramoto.org
Fri Feb 17 07:35:48 EST 2012


On 17/02/2012 12:57, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Hello all,
> it seems that there is no direct support for IPsec operations in the current libnl.
>
> Are there any plans to add this? If not, are there any ideas on how to implement this?
>

You can always implement your own netlink calls using  the "generic 
netlink" lib
http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/doc/api/group__genl.html 
<http://www.infradead.org/%7Etgr/libnl/doc/api/group__genl.html>


I'm not very familiar with NETLINK_XFRM   What are you trying to do 
that  libipsec can't do? http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/

just a libnl user,

--
Karl



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