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netlink: add interface notification on link status / flags change.
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Authored by melifaro on Dec 3 2022, 5:11 PM.
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Add more interface change notifications to netlink:

  1. Add link-state change notifications by subscribing to ifnet_link_event. In the Linux netlink model, link state is reported in 2 places: first is the IFLA_OPERSTATE, which stores state per RFC2863. The second is an IFF_LOWER_UP interface flag. As many applications rely on the latter, reserve 1 bit from if_flags, named as IFF_NETLINK_1. This flag is mapped to IFF_LOWER_UP in the netlink headers. This is done to avoid making applications think this flag is actually supported / presented in non-netlink outputs.
  2. Add flag change notifications, by hooking into rt_ifmsg(). In the netlink model, notification should include the bitmask for the change flags. Update rt_ifmsg() to include such bitmask

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