Hello, at first thank you for your answers to my last question concerning modules - it works great with function pointers ;-) Sorry, but I have a new question: I want to control a network protocol at runtime. I have read that one possibility is the use of ioctl's, but I don't know how to use, because I don't have a file descriptor (e.g. device). Another possibility seems to be the use of sysctl, but with sysctl I can't call functions, can I? In generel the concrete question is: How can I achieve to control a module (call functions) from a user-space programm? Thanks, Nils -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/