KERMOND - Kernel Monitor Daemon

An Apteryx abstraction for the Linux kernel networking stack

Requires

apteryx apteryx-xml glib-2.0 libnl-3.0 libnl-route-3.0

Building

make
make install

Running

$ ./apteryx-kermond -h
Usage: ./apteryx-kermond [-h] [-b] [-v] [-d] [-p <pidfile>]
  -h   show this help
  -b   background mode
  -d   enable debug
  -v   enable verbose debug
  -m   comma separated list of modules to load (e.g. ifconfig,ifstatus)
  -p   use <pidfile> (defaults to /var/run/apteryx-kermond.pid)
Modules: ifstatus ifconfig rib fib neighbor-settings static-neighbor neighbor-cache icmp tcp dot1q 

Example - manage interfaces (interface.xml)

# Start daemon to manage interface configuration
apteryxd -b
apteryx-kermond -b -mifconfig,ifstatus

# Set admin-down
apteryx -s /interface/interfaces/eth1/settings/admin-status 0
# Set admin-up
apteryx -s /interface/interfaces/eth1/settings/admin-status 1
# Check oper-state
apteryx -g /interface/interfaces/eth1/status/oper-status
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Unit tests (using g_test)

make test
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