Subject: Re: We've released a generic netlink python library -- gnlpy

From: Edward Cree <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 15:52:03 +0100

On 21/05/15 00:33, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Alex Gartrell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> tl;dr; pure python generic netlink library with simple clients for ipvs and
>> taskstats here: https://github.com/facebook/gnlpy
> libnl should have python support for generic netlink too:
>
> $ ls python/netlink/genl/
> capi.i  __init__.py  Makefile  Makefile.am  Makefile.in
>
> but I never use its python module so not sure if it works... ;)
There is also pyroute2.netlink.generic
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyroute2>
which does work but it's a bit clunky imho.