About IP Helper

Internet Protocol Helper (IP Helper) is an API that assists in the network administration of the local computer. You can use IP Helper to programmatically retrieve information about the network configuration of the local computer, and to modify that configuration. IP Helper also provides notification mechanisms to ensure that an application is signaled when certain aspects of the network configuration change on the local computer.

Many of the IP Helper functions pass structure parameters that represent data types seen in the Management Information Base technology. These data types are also used by the MIB API, and are described in the Management Information Base Reference.

IP Helper provides capabilities in the following areas:

• Retrieving Information About Network Configuration
• Managing Network Adapters
• Managing Interfaces
• Managing IP Addresses
• Using the Address Resolution Protocol
• Retrieving Information on the Internet Protocol and the Internet Control Message Protocol
• Managing Routing
• Receiving Notification of Network Events
• Retrieving Information About the Transmission Control Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol