Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:12:35 +0530 From: "Debarshi Ray" <debarshi.ray@gmail.com> To: "Mikhail Gorbulev" <alcazoid@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, FreeBSD networking and TCP/IP list <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <3170f42f0809241342q422439b7oe72f60cf45ba53f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e367a30a0809211059u55ece248jb1a5410ecb312c3a@mail.gmail.com> References: <87ej3e32iz.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <1221968342.74421.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <e367a30a0809211059u55ece248jb1a5410ecb312c3a@mail.gmail.com>
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> I was thinking about porting it, because I really need this thing on > my laptop and to have some programming experience. I just wanted to > have a companion, because I'm not sure I can handle this by myself and > because I'm pretty lazy these days, so I need to feel responsibility Myself and Ashish are working on a library (libroute) that basically abstracts out the various interfaces offered by different kernels to interact with routing tables, etc.. Currently NetworkManager uses libnl [1], which is a wrapper over the Linux kernel's PF_NETLINK socket interface, but its entirely Linux specific. So libroute will have a backend for PF_NETLINK (using libnl), one for PF_ROUTE, and so on. Once we have the required functionality, we intend to modify NetworkManager so that it calls libroute instead of libnl. The initial code is available here: git://bombadil.infradead.org/~rishi/inetutils.git (see libroute/ and route/) I must say that libroute is still in the initial stages of developement. :-) Interested? Happy hacking, Debarshi [1] http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl
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