Crate rtnetlink 

This crate provides methods to manipulate networking resources (links, addresses, arp tables, route tables) via the netlink protocol.

Re-exports

pub use netlink_packet_core as packet_core;

pub use netlink_packet_route as packet_route;

pub use netlink_proto as proto;

pub use netlink_sys as sys;

Modules

constants

Macros

try_nl

try_rtnl

Structs

AddressAddRequest

A request to create a new address. This is equivalent to the ip address add commands.

AddressDelRequest

AddressGetRequest

AddressHandle

AddressMessageBuilder

Helper struct for building AddressMessage.

AfstatsRequest

Handle

LinkAddRequest

A request to create a new link. This is equivalent to the ip link add commands.

LinkAmt

Represent AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) interface. Example code on creating an AMT interface

LinkAssignNsidHandle

Request to assign a new nsid to a network namespace.

LinkBareudp

Represent BareUDP interface.

LinkBatAdv

Represent batadv interface.

LinkBond

Represent bond interface. Example code on creating a bond interface

LinkBondPort

LinkBridge

Represent Linux Bridge interface. Example code on creating a linux bridge interface

LinkBridgePort

LinkBridgeVlan

LinkCan

Represent CAN (Controller Area Network) interface.

LinkDelPropRequest

LinkDelRequest

LinkDsa

Represent DSA interface. Example code on creating a DSA interface

LinkDummy

Represent dummy interface. Example code on creating a dummy interface

LinkGeneve

Represent GENEVE interface. Example code on creating a GENEVE interface

LinkGetNsidHandle

Request to resolve a network namespace name to its nsid.

LinkGetRequest

LinkGre

Represent GRE/Gretap interface (IPv4).

LinkGre6

Represent IP6GRE/IP6Gretap interface (IPv6).

LinkGtp

Represent GTP interface. Example code on creating a GTP interface

LinkHandle

LinkHsr

Represent HSR (High-availability Seamless Redundancy) interface.

LinkIfb

Represent ifb interface. Example code on creating a ifb interface

LinkIp6Tnl

Represent IP6TNL interface. Example code on creating a IP6TNL interface

LinkIpIp

Represent IPIP interface. Example code on creating a IPIP interface

LinkIpVlan

Represent IPVLAN interface.

LinkIpVtap

Represent IPVTAP interface.

LinkIpoib

Represent IPoIB (IP over InfiniBand) interface. Example code on creating an IPoIB interface

LinkMacSec

Represent MACsec interface. Example code on creating a MACsec interface

LinkMacVlan

Represent MAC VLAN interface. Example code on creating a MAC VLAN interface

LinkMacVtap

Represent MAC VTAP interface. Example code on creating a MAC VTAP interface

LinkMessageBuilder

Helper struct for building LinkMessage. The LinkMessageBuilder is designed for advanced user, wrapper structs/functions are created

LinkNetdevsim

Represent netdevsim interface. Example code on creating a netdevsim interface

LinkNetkit

Represent netkit virtual interface. Netkit devices are used for container networking and BPF programs.

LinkNlmon

Represent nlmon interface. Example code on creating a nlmon interface

LinkPfcp

Represent PFCP interface. Example code on creating a PFCP interface

LinkRmNet

Represent rmnet interface. Example code on creating a rmnet interface. The link (parent device) is required for the rmnet interface.

LinkSetRequest

LinkSit

Represent SIT interface. Example code on creating a SIT interface

LinkTeam

Represent team interface. Example code on creating a team interface

LinkTun

Represent TUN/TAP interface. Example code on creating a TUN interface

LinkUnspec

Generic interface without interface type Could be used to match interface by interface name or index. Example on attaching a interface to controller

LinkVcan

Represent vcan interface. Example code on creating a vcan interface

LinkVeth

Represent virtual ethernet interface. Example code on creating a veth pair

LinkVirtWifi

Represent virt_wifi interface. Example code on creating a virt_wifi interface

LinkVlan

Represent VLAN interface. Example code on creating a VLAN interface

LinkVrf

Represent VRF interface. Example code on creating a VRF interface

LinkVti

LinkVti6

LinkVxcan

Represent virtual can interface. Example code on creating a vxcan pair

LinkVxlan

Represent VxLAN interface. Example code on creating a VxLAN interface

LinkWireguard

Represent wireguard interface. Example code on creating a wireguard interface

LinkWwan

Represent wwan interface. Example code on creating a wwan interface. The parentdev is required to specify the parent device for the wwan interface.

LinkXfrm

Represent XFRM interface. Example code on creating a XFRM interface

NeighbourAddRequest

NeighbourDelRequest

NeighbourGetRequest

NeighbourHandle

NetworkNamespace

QDiscDelRequest

QDiscGetRequest

QDiscHandle

QDiscNewRequest

QosMapping

A quality-of-service mapping between the internal priority from to the external vlan priority to.

RouteAddRequest

A request to create a new route. This is equivalent to the ip route add commands.

RouteDelRequest

RouteGetRequest

RouteHandle

RouteMessageBuilder

RouteNextHopBuilder

RuleAddRequest

A request to create a new rule. This is equivalent to the ip rule add command.

RuleDelRequest

RuleGetRequest

RuleHandle

TrafficChainGetRequest

TrafficChainHandle

TrafficClassGetRequest

TrafficClassHandle

TrafficFilterGetRequest

TrafficFilterHandle

TrafficFilterNewRequest

Enums

Error

IpVersion

Internet Protocol (IP) version.

MulticastGroup

Constants

NETNS_PATH

NONE_FS

SELF_NS_PATH

Functions

from_socket

new_connection

new_connection_with_socket

new_multicast_connection

Equal to ip monitor command

new_multicast_connection_with_socket

Equal to ip monitor command