netlink

Hey all I somehow fail to write basic firewall rules for my system. When I run pfctl -nf /etc/pf.conf it fails with an error: # pfctl -nf /etc/pf.conf pfctl: Failed to open netlink: Bad file descriptor If I try to ask for more debug output, I get the same result. # pfctl -x loud -gvnf...

I was reading the source code for route and noticed that we have implemented netlink support for our base utilities. I'm trying to understand why we decided to switch our userland sockets to support netlink. I have read several comparison articles on the internet, and their reasoning includes...