Ivan> I need to develop a configuration utility to a network
Ivan> device. All I need this application to do (I guess) is to open
Ivan> this netdev, send an IOCTL to it, and then close it. At least
Ivan> that's how I'm used to do it with serial ports ... :)
Ivan> The info I need is: is there any good resource of information on
Ivan> how to write such an application ?? I tried looking at the
Ivan> ifconfig (net-tools) code, but that's too (read much more)
Ivan> complex for what I need.
I wrote a tool to upgrade the firmware on the Essential Road Runner
HIPPI card a while ago. It does basically what you are asking for, and
a little more which is related to convert the firmware image, but you
can ignore that bit (convert_segment() etc).
You can find it at http://home.cern.ch/~jes/hippi/rrfw-1.0.tar.gz
Jes
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