VB application to communicate to a SOHO router

[asim_developer]

Hi

I am trying to develop an application in VB 6, in which i want the application to communicate to the Router, I want the application to communicate with the router inorder to read out some information from it like the log file that the router generates.
The router is using LINUX kernel.
any help from the forums guys would be highly appreciated

Regards

[Hack]

Moved from Application Development

[davidbishton]

If you are using TCP/IP routers usually require packets that are in network byte order. Therefore don't forget to swap the bits when you send data to the router.

I can help with this if you require more info.

[asim_developer]

Yes sir definetly i need help from you.

I have done it with parsing the HTML pages the router generates.

The main problem i am facing is to pass through authentication the router requires.
I you have any similar project kindly share it with me.

Thanks for anticipation.

[davidbishton]

I don't have a router project as such.

Are you able to communicate with the router directly?

When I said I can help you - I meant with the bit swapping.

[asim_developer]

Ok thanks alot for all your help

I have done that, now what i want is the result of IPCONFIG/ALL to be displayed in my application i-e i want to run this command through my application and then display its result in a text box, can you please let me know what API to call and how?

thanks for all your time and anticipation

[davidbishton]

What this does is create a console, it accepts text from the console which is then displayed in a form.

I'm sure you could customize this to your needs.

Private Const FOREGROUND_BLUE = &H1
Private Const FOREGROUND_GREEN = &H2
Private Const FOREGROUND_RED = &H4
Private Const BACKGROUND_BLUE = &H10
Private Const BACKGROUND_GREEN = &H20
Private Const BACKGROUND_RED = &H40
Private Const BACKGROUND_INTENSITY = &H80&
Private Const BACKGROUND_SEARCH = &H20&
Private Const FOREGROUND_INTENSITY = &H8&
Private Const FOREGROUND_SEARCH = (&H10&)
Private Const ENABLE_LINE_INPUT = &H2&
Private Const ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT = &H4&
Private Const ENABLE_MOUSE_INPUT = &H10&
Private Const ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT = &H1&
Private Const ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT = &H8&
Private Const ENABLE_PROCESSED_OUTPUT = &H1&
Private Const ENABLE_WRAP_AT_EOL_OUTPUT = &H2&
Private Const STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE = -11&
Private Const STD_INPUT_HANDLE = -10&
Private Const STD_ERROR_HANDLE = -12&
Private Const INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = -1&
Private Declare Function AllocConsole Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Declare Function FreeConsole Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetStdHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal nStdHandle As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function WriteConsole Lib "kernel32" Alias "WriteConsoleA" (ByVal hConsoleOutput As Long, lpBuffer As Any, ByVal nNumberOfCharsToWrite As Long, lpNumberOfCharsWritten As Long, lpReserved As Any) As Long
Private Declare Function ReadConsole Lib "kernel32" Alias "ReadConsoleA" (ByVal hConsoleInput As Long, ByVal lpBuffer As String, ByVal nNumberOfCharsToRead As Long, lpNumberOfCharsRead As Long, lpReserved As Any) As Long
Private Declare Function SetConsoleTextAttribute Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hConsoleOutput As Long, ByVal wAttributes As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetConsoleTitle Lib "kernel32" Alias "SetConsoleTitleA" (ByVal lpConsoleTitle As String) As Long
Private hConsoleOut As Long, hConsoleIn As Long, hConsoleErr As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
    'KPD-Team 2001
    'URL: [url]http://www.allapi.net/[/url]
    'E-Mail: [email][email protected][/email]
    'Create console
    If AllocConsole() Then
        hConsoleOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
        If hConsoleOut = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then MsgBox "Unable to get STDOUT"
        hConsoleIn = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE)
        If hConsoleOut = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then MsgBox "Unable to get STDIN"
    Else
        MsgBox "Couldn't allocate console"
    End If
    'Set the caption of the console window
    SetConsoleTitle "The KPD-Team 2001"
    'Set the background color of the text in the console to bright YELLOW text
    'on a BLUE background
    SetConsoleTextAttribute hConsoleOut, FOREGROUND_RED Or FOREGROUND_GREEN Or FOREGROUND_INTENSITY Or BACKGROUND_BLUE
    'Write something in the console
    ConsoleWriteLine "Hello World!"
    ConsoleWrite "Please enter your name: "
    'Ask for user input and show it in the caption
    Me.Caption = "Your name: " + ConsoleReadLine()
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
    'Delete console
    CloseHandle hConsoleOut
    CloseHandle hConsoleIn
    FreeConsole
End Sub
Sub ConsoleWriteLine(sInput As String)
     ConsoleWrite sInput + vbCrLf
End Sub
Sub ConsoleWrite(sInput As String)
     Dim cWritten As Long
     WriteConsole hConsoleOut, ByVal sInput, Len(sInput), cWritten, ByVal 0&
End Sub
Function ConsoleReadLine() As String
    Dim ZeroPos As Long
    'Create a buffer
    ConsoleReadLine = String(10, 0)
    'Read the input
    ReadConsole hConsoleIn, ConsoleReadLine, Len(ConsoleReadLine), vbNull, vbNull