Ioctl Help

dragon_fly · 07-16-2009, 02:22 AM

well m a newbie to ioctl....i looked up everywhere for ioctl tutorials in the web but cudn't find wat i want...can somebody explain me wid a help of a sample program on how to write values n get values from devices using ioctl system calls.....lets say i want to retrieve the ip and mac address of my ethernet interface and as well change my ip address using Ioctl...any help will be greatly appreciated

regards,

xaler · 07-16-2009, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by dragon_fly

well m a newbie to ioctl....i looked up everywhere for ioctl tutorials in the web but cudn't find wat i want...can somebody explain me wid a help of a sample program on how to write values n get values from devices using ioctl system calls.....lets say i want to retrieve the ip and mac address of my ethernet interface and as well change my ip address using Ioctl...any help will be greatly appreciated

regards,

Here is an Example