netlink_proto::sys

Module protocols

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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.