how does Network-admin works ?

[ranshalit]

Hello,


I try to understand the way the network-admin retrieve and set information about the network connections, and after reviewing thee code, I still dont undertsnad how it does it. I thought that it should use maybe linux commands such as iwconfig or ifconfig or by using ioctl for get/set the parameters of the wireless, but I did not find such things in the code. It also does not use AT commands for modem devices parameters.
I see that it uses liboobs files, but after veiwing the code, I still don't understand how it works.

I thank you if you can give me some clue about it.
These question comes since I need to make a program which connects to wireless devices (possibly several wifi and modems devices can be connected ), and I try to think how to set/get the network parameters, I thought that a good start will be to look at how network-admin works.

Best Regards,

Ran

[RootBeer]

Network connections, by default, are automatically configured using DHCP. The command run by network-admin is dhclient.

You can run this manually by typing:

sudo dhclient eth0

Before running this command you should stop dhclient to make sure there are not multiple instances running.