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+rtnetlink [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jsimonetti/rtnetlink.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/jsimonetti/rtnetlink) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/jsimonetti/rtnetlink)
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+Package `rtnetlink` provides low-level access to Linux rtnetlink.
+MIT Licensed.
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+This package is heavily inspired by https://github.com/mdlayher/netlink/tree/master/genetlink.
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