/* Helper routine to generate a netlink.Route object from string descriptions */ func mkRoute(src, dst, dev, gw string) *netlink.Route { _, dst_net, err := net.ParseCIDR(dst) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("failed to parse route destination %s: %s", dst, err) } route := netlink.Route{Src: net.ParseIP(extract_ip(src)), Dst: dst_net} if dev != "" { link, err := netlink.LinkByName(dev) if err != nil { log.Fatalf("failed to look up outgoing interface %s: %s", dev, err) } route.LinkIndex = link.Attrs().Index } if gw != "" { route.Gw = net.ParseIP(gw) } return &route }
// 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 }