Hi James Chapman >> >James Cameron wrote: >> You could look at the ip(8) command source to find out how it is done, >> /sbin/ip or /bin/ip is part of the iproute package on Red Hat and Debian >> based Linux distributions. >The ip command uses libnetlink, but there's a new netlink library that >is much easier to use. It's called libnl, at >http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/. It includes simple apps that do >common things like add routes. Binary packages are available for modern >distros. >> Latest version of pptp has a hack that uses system(3) to execute ip(8). >> If you can figure a way to do this without using system(3) then I'm >> quite interested. Thanks a lot, I'll try. Reg -- c.j -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html