Netlink specification support for raw Netlink families

This document describes the additional properties required by raw Netlink families such as NETLINK_ROUTE which use the netlink-raw protocol specification.

Specification

The netlink-raw schema extends the genetlink-legacy schema with properties that are needed to specify the protocol numbers and multicast IDs used by raw netlink families. See Classic Netlink for more information.

Globals

protonum

The protonum property is used to specify the protocol number to use when opening a netlink socket.

# SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)

name: rt-addr
protocol: netlink-raw
protonum: 0             # part of the NETLINK_ROUTE protocol

Multicast group properties

value

The value property is used to specify the group ID to use for multicast group registration.

mcast-groups:
  list:
    -
      name: rtnlgrp-ipv4-ifaddr
      value: 5
    -
      name: rtnlgrp-ipv6-ifaddr
      value: 9
    -
      name: rtnlgrp-mctp-ifaddr
      value: 34