On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:46:25PM +0200, Nickolay Dokovsky wrote: > I want to make little kernel module which switches network devices. For > instance if > you have two NIC's one is master the other is slave and if the master is > going down then the slave has to take ip address and mac address of the > master. > I am successfully getting the mac address but I can't set the ip > information. Any ideas how to do this ? I think you can perfectly do this in userland. Keep it simple, no need for kernel modules, ifconfig and route are enough. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
