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Subject: BSD and Darwin routing API questions
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Hi.

I'm working on a portable (multiplatform) C library for manipulating routing tables. It will eventually be wrapperized for the C++ Poco toolkit, but the raw C API should be usable directly too.

I'm trying to support BSD/MacOSX, Linux, and Win32.

My experience with BSD routing tables was current as of NetBSD circa 1999, so I have a little catching up to do.

Anyway, if someone can collaborate with me and answer some questions about some of the corner cases (like IPsec and 6to4 tunnelling, etc.) I'd appreciate it: please contact me offline.

Pointers to useful examples are also appreciated. I looked at netutils (route and netstat), Quagga, KAME, and a couple of other places but the latter all seemed to be oriented toward special cases.

Thanks,

-Philip