rtnl. listener

Represents a netlink listener resource.

Example
const nlListener = listener((msg) => {
    print('Received netlink message:', msg, '\n');
}, [RTM_NEWROUTE, RTM_DELROUTE]);

nlListener.set_commands([RTM_GETLINK, RTM_SETLINK]);

nlListener.close();
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Methods

close() → {boolean}

Close a netlink listener.

Closes the netlink listener and stops receiving messages.

Returns: boolean
  • true if successful, false on error
Example
// Close the listener
listener.close();
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set_commands(commands) → {boolean}

Set the commands for a netlink listener.

Updates the set of netlink commands that the listener will receive.

Parameters:
NameTypeDescription
commandsstring[]

Array of netlink commands to listen for

Returns: boolean
  • true if successful, false on error
Example
// Update listener to only receive route messages
listener.set_commands([RTM_NEWROUTE, RTM_DELROUTE]);
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