Re: [OT] Programming network devices

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 01:22:06 -0300 (EST)


Wanrouter (http://www.conectiva.com.br/~acme/cycsyn-devel/19980831/
firmware/wanconfig/) which is the firmware loader/configuration utility
for WAN devices might be usefull too.

- Marcelo

On 7 Oct 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> >>>>> "Ivan" == Linux Lists <lists@cyclades.com> writes:
>
> 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
>

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