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The iproute2 package is the base implementation of the netlink interface, it replaces all the old linux networking utilities (ifconfig, route, etc) into a single binary called ip which performs all of the tasks using the netlink interface. I highly recommend that you use this package as a reference when coding netlink related applications. In particular iproute2 contains a netlink library (libnetlink) which deals with much of the low level protocol interactions between your application and the kernel. Unfortunately the library is not seperately packaged and you'll have to spend some time extracting it from the iproute2 package before it is useful.
Coming Soon - Some basic examples of how to program using libnetlink -- Talk to MattBrown if you want them and they're not here yet!
+(ha! It's been ages and you've not put up any examples! So I've written one that shows route add/del events, see LinuxNetlinkSocketExample --PerryLorier).
!! Applications Known to Use Netlink Sockets
* Quagga
