Module netlink_proto::sys::protocols

Constants

• NETLINK_AUDIT
  Auditing.
• NETLINK_CONNECTOR
  Kernel connector. See Documentation/connector/* in the Linux kernel source tree for further information.
• NETLINK_CRYPTO
  Netlink interface to request information about ciphers registered with the kernel crypto API as well as allow configuration of the kernel crypto API.
• NETLINK_DNRTMSG
  DECnet routing messages.
• NETLINK_ECRYPTFS
• NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP
  Access to FIB lookup from user space.
• NETLINK_FIREWALL
  Transport IPv4 packets from netfilter to user space. Used by ip_queue kernel module. After a long period of being declared obsolete (in favor of the more advanced nfnetlink_queue feature), it was removed in Linux 3.5.
• NETLINK_GENERIC
  Generic netlink family for simplified netlink usage.
• NETLINK_IP6_FW
  Transport IPv6 packets from netfilter to user space. Used by ip6_queue kernel module.
• NETLINK_ISCSI
  Open-iSCSI.
• NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT
  Kernel messages to user space.
• NETLINK_NETFILTER
  Netfilter subsystem.
• NETLINK_NFLOG
  Netfilter/iptables ULOG.
• NETLINK_RDMA
  Infiniband RDMA.
• NETLINK_ROUTE
  Receives routing and link updates and may be used to modify the routing tables (both IPv4 and IPv6), IP addresses, link parameters, neighbor setups, queueing disciplines, traffic classes and packet classifiers (see rtnetlink(7)).
• NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT
  SCSI transpots
• NETLINK_SELINUX
  SELinux event notifications.
• NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG
  Query information about sockets of various protocol families from the kernel (see sock_diag(7)).
• NETLINK_UNUSED
• NETLINK_USERSOCK
  Reserved for user-mode socket protocols.
• NETLINK_XFRM
  IPsec.