> On 16 Jan 2023, at 15:13, Alexander V. Chernikov <melif...@ipfw.ru> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 15 Jan 2023, at 13:09, Alexander V. Chernikov <melif...@ipfw.ru> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 15 Jan 2023, at 02:26, User Ngor <ihor@antonovs.family> wrote:
>>>
>>> man 4 rtnetlink says:
>>>
>>> int socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, NETLINK_ROUTE);
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The following snippet fails
>>>
>>> int fd = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, NETLINK_ROUTE);
>>> if (fd < 0) {
>>> perror("Failed to open netlink socket");
>>> return -1;
>>> }
>>> printf("all good\n");
>>> close(fd);
>>> return 0;
>>>
>>> I get: Failed to open netlink socket: Protocol wrong type for socket
>>>
>>>
>>> but if I change
>>> int fd = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE);
>>>
>>> I get "all good"
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>> It’s a bug. The manage should state SOCK_RAW, but both options should be
>> supported, which is not the case ATM.
>> I’ll fix it in a couple of days.
> Raised https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38075 with a fix.
Committed as 0079d177ab69.
>> Meanwhile it may be worth looking into snl(3) which abstracts issues like
>> this one.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> $ uname -a FreeBSD zen.hq 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0
>>> main-n259967-11b5b9e8a520: Sat Jan 7 16:39:30 UTC 2023
>>> r...@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
>>>
>>> $ kldstat | grep netl
>>> 39 1 0xffffffff839fc000 14af8 netlink.ko
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ihor Antonov
