03-14-2002
Briefly the ioctl function is called with three arguments. The first is a file descriptor, a socket in the case of network programming. The second argument is the request, e.g. what you want to do, there are many of them like SIOCGIFADDR which returns to you the protocol address assigned to your interface. The third argument is a pointer and it depends of the request, for instance if you want to get interface configuration parameters the pointer is of struct ifconf type. You can check the manual page of ioctl_list so as to get a list of the available requests.
The problem is that ioctl is not the same for all unix like os, it may vary. Last week I was trying to configure a proxy arp server with ioctl but the damn thing was not working properly. I posted a mail to the linux kernel mailing list but anfortunately nobody answered.
Last edited by developer; 03-18-2002 at 08:05 AM..
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NAME
arp - Address Resolution Protocol
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device ether
DESCRIPTION
The ARP protocol is used to map dynamically between DARPA Internet and 10Mb/s Ethernet addresses. It is used by all the 10Mb/s Ethernet
interface drivers.
The ARP protocol caches Internet-Ethernet address mappings. When an interface requests a mapping for an address not in the cache, ARP
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