// This code proposed for addition to the vishvananda/netlink library // deserializeRoute decodes a binary netlink message into a Route struct func deserializeRoute(m []byte) (netlink.Route, error) { route := netlink.Route{} msg := nl.DeserializeRtMsg(m) attrs, err := nl.ParseRouteAttr(m[msg.Len():]) if err != nil { return route, err } route.Scope = netlink.Scope(msg.Scope) native := nl.NativeEndian() for _, attr := range attrs { switch attr.Attr.Type { case syscall.RTA_GATEWAY: route.Gw = net.IP(attr.Value) case syscall.RTA_PREFSRC: route.Src = net.IP(attr.Value) case syscall.RTA_DST: route.Dst = &net.IPNet{ IP: attr.Value, Mask: net.CIDRMask(int(msg.Dst_len), 8*len(attr.Value)), } case syscall.RTA_OIF: routeIndex := int(native.Uint32(attr.Value[0:4])) route.LinkIndex = routeIndex } } return route, nil }