Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:07:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo@righi.ml.org> To: "Pavel V. Antipov" <pavel@ikar.elect.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet-level connection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906041807060.19306-100000@righi.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990604161331.13837B-100000@ikar.elect.ru>
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the lastest FreeBSD release is 3.2
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Pavel V. Antipov wrote:
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> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
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> > Hello.
> > I did a FreeBSD port called sniff. and to have access to ethernet packets
> > I just used tcpdump. AS well tcpdump is written using libpcap.
> > I wanted to access directly to the ethernet device without using libpcap
> > or tcpdump but since now noone could answer to my question.
> > Do u have any clue about it ?
> > thanks
> >
> > Rick
> >
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> Hi !
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> I saw PF_PACKET parameter for system call "socket" in linux. In FreeBSD
> thare is PF_LINK (see <sys/sockst.h>).
> I tried to execute this program:
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> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <errno.h>
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> main(){
> cout << socket(AF_LINK, SOCK_RAW, 0)<<endl;
> cout<<errno<<endl;
> }
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> As a result errno == 43. I use 2.2.5 and hope that in latest versions of
> FreeBSD I'll find direct access to Ethernet packets via
> socket & recvfrom & sendto system calls.
>
> Pavel
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