On Linux, the gateway attribute is not a key attribute and therefore is
not necessary for functions that just need to identify a route. This may
be revisited when porting to other platforms but for now I want to keep
things simple.
In some cases, callers don't need to distinguish, eg,
ip4-address-added from ip6-address-added, but just need to know what
device the event occurred on. Make this simpler by including the
ifindex as a separate explicit argument, allowing callers to just
ignore the struct part.
Extend nm-platform to support IPv4 and IPv6 route management.
Route features:
* Retrieve the list of IPv4 and IPv6 routes
* Add/delete/lookup IPv4 and IPv6 routes
* Flush all non-linklocal routes
Extend nm-platform to support IPv4 and IPv6 address management.
Address features:
* Retrieve the list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
* Add/delete/lookup IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
* Flush all non-linklocal addresses
Create the new nm-platform framework and implement link (or interface)
management. The nm-platform serves as the point of contact between
the rest of NetworkManager and the operating system.
There are two backends for nm-platform:
* NMFakePlatform: Fake kernel backend for testing purposes
* NMLinuxPlatform: Linux kernel backend for actual use
A comprehensive testsuite is included and will be extended with new
feature additions. To enable the Linux part of the testsuite, use
--enable-tests=root configure options and run 'make check' as root.
Use --enable-code-coverage for code coverage support.
./autogen.sh --enable-tests=root --enable-code-coverage
make
make -C src/platform check-code-coverage
Link features:
* Retrieve the list of links
* Translate between indexes and names
* Discover device type
* Add/remove dummy interfaces (for testing)
Thanks to Thomas Graf for helping with libnl3 synchronization issues.
