# [OmniOS-discuss] LX for OmniOS update

Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us
Wed Aug 10 17:35:29 UTC 2016

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    On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Dan McDonald wrote:

    > Can't use Linux network configuration.  Use /native/sbin/ipadm and /native/sbin/route.  (You will also need to add those to some sort of boot script in-zone for now.)

    I think that any program using netlink and rtnetlink sockets (similar
    in operation to routing sockets)
    (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/netlink.7.html,
    http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/rtnetlink.7.html) will not work
    whereas some deprecated ioctls may work.

    This is problematic since Linux programs configuring or querying
    network topology/configuration are supposed to use netlink now and
    ioctls are deprecated.

    The Linux 'ip' command uses netlink whereas legacy 'ifconfig' may
    be using ioctls.

    Illumos could provide an emulation of netlink sockets, but of course
    this would be a lot of work.

    Bob
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