reading routing table

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Debarshi Ray wrote:
> I am implementing a library/utility which basically encompasses the
> features of the traditional route utilities and those of newer tools
> (like ip from iproute2), which are mostly specific to a particular
> kernel. The overpowering objective is to make the library/utility work
> uniformly across all different kernels, so that programs like
> NetworkManager have a portable library/utility to use instead of the
> Linux-kernel specific ip which is now being used.
>   

Why don't you just use XORP's FEA code?
It already does all this under a BSD-type license.

cheers
BMS