Manipulating interface IPv6 addresses

Hello to everybody,

I'm writing an application that works like a sort of Router
Advertisement Deamon for IPv6. I'm looking for a way to assign a
(global) IPv6 address to an interface. I found somewhere you can do that
via netlink. Is that the right way? Is there a simpler one? And where
can I find detailed netlink documentation?

I would be very happy if someone could help me!!!

Greetings

Max

"Massimiliano Marcon" <marcon@ira.uka.de> wrote in message
news:d8mgpb$a1j$3@news2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de...

> I'm writing an application that works like a sort of Router
> Advertisement Deamon for IPv6. I'm looking for a way to assign a
> (global) IPv6 address to an interface. I found somewhere you can do that
> via netlink. Is that the right way? Is there a simpler one?

Why not examine the source code for ifconfig:

Options
...
add addr/prefixlen
Add an IPv6 address to an interface.

del addr/prefixlen
Remove an IPv6 address from an interface.