erlang packet sniffer scanner

[Luke Gorrie]

Javier París Fernández <paris@REDACTED> writes:

> - Capturing all the packets: Ok, you cannot really use only Erlang for this. 
> You will have to write a C Port that either uses a raw socket  (this is in 
> linux), or for better portability, uses the libpcap library (I don't know if 
> your school will consider this cheating). To be fair, I don't think this can 
> be done natively in Java either.

NB: psocket program in the sourceforge project Jungerl supports
PF_PACKET sockets on Linux. These are for sniffing network interfaces.