Hi Karl,
----- Original Message ----- > From: Karl Auer <ka...@biplane.com.au> > To: IETF IPv6 <ipv6@ietf.org>; IPv6 Tech <ipv6t...@lists.ipv6.org.au> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013 6:12 PM > Subject: first hop routing - visible in user space? > > Are the data structures involved in first hop routing for IPv6 (see RFC > 2461, 4861 and 491 "conceptual models") visible in user space?That is, > is it possible to see what's going on as it happens? If so, how? Or is > it a black box? > Linux exposes some of this information to user space e.g. ip -6 route show table cache and the ip -6 neigh show command shows the router flag for neighbors that are routers. My understanding though is that Linux doesn't implement the described data structures specifically. Regards, Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
