(usagi-users 03354) Re: IPv6 kerenl mechanism

In article <[email protected]> (at Wed, 18 May 2005 10:19:52 -0400), "Bellino, Phil" <[email protected]> says:

> I have an IPv6 application that needs to be told when the 2.6.11 kernel has
> accepted a router announcement prefix and has inserted that address into the
> appropriate interface.  This application will then set up and do the
> necessary binds to set up the tcp/ssh listen addresses correctly. 
>  
> Is there any code in place in the kernel that an application can key on to
> know when a new IPv6 address has been accepted from  the router or if a user
> has issued the "ip -6 addr add" or "ip -6 addr del" command?

Use rtnetlink(8).

--yoshfuji