Methods to communicate between kernel network stack and user space
From: Syed Muhammad Mohsin Kazmi <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-15 14:49:42
Hi,
Consider the figure below:
+-----------------------------------+
| |
| TRILL IS-IS<--|---------
| Quagga protocol suite | |
+-----------------------------------+ |
user space
|
----------------------------------------------------------|----------------------
kernel space |
|
+------------------------------------------+ |
| TCP / UDP / ICMP | |
|
| |
+------------------------------------------+ |
| IPv4 /IPv6
| |
|
| |
+------------------------------------------+ |
|
+-------------+ | |
| |
TRILL |<-|---
| Bridging +------------+ |
+------------------------------------------+
| Interface between Device |
|Driver and network stack(dev.c)|
+------------------------------------------+
| Device Driver |
|
|
+-----------------|
|------------------+
| |
NIC
As you may know, TRILL uses IS-IS protocol to
calculate pairwise optimal paths and other control plane parameters.
Now i want to communicate between TRILL forwarding in bridging with
TRILL IS-IS in quagga protocol suite to send and receive control plane
packets. I don't know what method should i use for this kind of
communication.
Netlink sockets are appropriate for this purpose?
Or please suggest something else.
Thanks in Advance...!!