Dear All,
I am working on a networking application using socket and C programming. I
need a functionality to manipulate routing table and for that I need SYSCTL
API (it is part of socket interface). Now, the problem is that I cannot find
the relevant library. I have to do this work using IOCTL API but it is not
as versatile as the SYSCTL. Further, when I ran a script that checks the
funcionalities (libraries) present on the system, it said that Fedora Core
-4/5 which I am using, do not have the lirbaries. Same thing happened when I
was looking for API to access the Data Link Layer and packet
generation/sniffing operations.
The impression I am getting is that Unix supports a much wider range of
sockets related functionalities than Linux, as the material (Stevens,
Sockets Programming book) I am following refers to Unix for all such
functionalities in explanations.
Is there any way I could add these libraries? For this do I have to
recompile the kernel?
Thank you very much,
Abid Ghufran.
