Family `rt-addr` netlink specification ¶

Summary ¶

Address configuration over rtnetlink.

Operations ¶

newaddr ¶

Add new address

attribute-set:

do:

request

attributes:: [ifa-family, ifa-flags, ifa-prefixlen, ifa-scope, ifa-index, ifa-address, ifa-label, ifa-local, ifa-cacheinfo]

deladdr ¶

Remove address

attribute-set:

do:

request

attributes:: [ifa-family, ifa-flags, ifa-prefixlen, ifa-scope, ifa-index, ifa-address, ifa-local]

getaddr ¶

Dump address information.

attribute-set:

dump:

request

attributes:: [ifa-index]

reply

attributes:: [ifa-family, ifa-flags, ifa-prefixlen, ifa-scope, ifa-index, ifa-address, ifa-label, ifa-local, ifa-cacheinfo]

Multicast groups ¶

rtnlgrp-ipv4-ifaddr
rtnlgrp-ipv6-ifaddr

Definitions ¶

ifaddrmsg ¶

type:

struct

members:

ifa-family (u8):
ifa-prefixlen (u8):
ifa-flags (u8):
ifa-scope (u8):
ifa-index (u32):

ifa-cacheinfo ¶

type:

struct

members:

ifa-prefered (u32):
ifa-valid (u32):
cstamp (u32):
tstamp (u32):

ifa-flags ¶

type:

flags

entries:

secondary:
nodad:
optimistic:
dadfailed:
homeaddress:
deprecated:
tentative:
permanent:
managetempaddr:
noprefixroute:
mcautojoin:
stable-privacy:

Attribute sets ¶

addr-attrs ¶

ifa-address (`binary`)¶

display-hint:: ipv4

ifa-local (`binary`)¶

display-hint:: ipv4

ifa-label (`string`)¶

ifa-broadcast (`binary`)¶

display-hint:: ipv4

ifa-anycast (`binary`)¶

ifa-cacheinfo (`binary`)¶

struct:: ifa-cacheinfo

ifa-multicast (`binary`)¶

ifa-flags (`u32`)¶

enum:: ifa-flags
enum-as-flags:: True

ifa-rt-priority (`u32`)¶

ifa-target-netnsid (`binary`)¶

ifa-proto (`u8`)¶