Generic netlink

Describe

class pyroute2.netlink.generic.GenericNetlinkSocket(family=16, port=None, pid=None)

Low-level socket interface. Provides all the usual socket does, can be used in poll/select, doesn’t create any implicit threads.

Provides two additional methods: * get_protocol_id() – resolve generic netlink proto * get() – receive and parse netlink messages

bind(proto, msg_class, groups=0, pid=0, async=False)

Bind the socket and performs generic netlink proto lookup. The proto parameter is a string, like “TASKSTATS”, msg_class is a class to parse messages with.

get_protocol_id(proto)

Resolve generic netlink protocol – takes a string as the only parameter, return integer proto ID