pub struct LinkAddRequest { /* private fields */ }
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A request to create a new link. This is equivalent to the ip link add commands.

A few methods for common actions (creating a veth pair, creating a vlan interface, etc.) are provided, but custom requests can be made using the message_mut() accessor.

Implementations

Execute the request.

Return a mutable reference to the request message.

Example

Let’s say we want to create a vlan interface on a link with id 6. By default, the vlan() method would create a request with the IFF_UP link set, so that the interface is up after creation. If we want to create a interface tha tis down by default we could do:

extern crate futures;
extern crate rtnetlink;
extern crate tokio_core;

use std::thread::spawn;

use futures::Future;
use tokio_core::reactor::Core;

use rtnetlink::new_connection;

fn main() {
    let (connection, handle) = new_connection().unwrap();
    spawn(move || Core::new().unwrap().run(connection));
    let vlan_id = 100;
    let link_id = 6;
    let mut request = handle.link().add().vlan("my-vlan-itf".into(), link_id, vlan_id);
    // unset the IFF_UP flag before sending the request
    request.message_mut().header_mut().flags_mut().unset_up();
    request.message_mut().header_mut().change_mask_mut().unset_up();
    // send the request
    request.execute().wait().unwrap();
}

Create a dummy link. This is equivalent to ip link add NAME type dummy.

Create a veth pair. kThis is equivalent to ip link add NAME1 type veth peer name NAME2.

Create VLAN on a link. This is equivalent to ip link add link LINK name NAME type vlan id VLAN_ID, but instead of specifying a link name (LINK), we specify a link index.

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