Having the extra data available in the notification for new addresses is useful
to, for instance, filter out temporary addresses or keep track of address
lifetimes.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
This adds parsing of the preferred and valid lifetime information from the
netlink IFA_CACHEINFO attribute. They are stored as PreferedLft and ValidLft in
the Addr struct if found.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
- Package methods only need an empty handle.
Not a regular Handle with a couple of
sockets creation/delete.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Boch <aboch@docker.com>
- Ties to a netlink socket. All client requests
will re-use same socket. Socket released at
handle deletion.
- Also network namespace can be specified during
handle creation. Socket will be opened on the
specified network namespace.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Boch <aboch@docker.com>
IFA_LOCAL and IFA_ADDRESS are the same for bcast interfaces,
however for point-to-point links, IFA_ADDRESS is the remote
address while IFA_LOCAL is the interface address.
