[erlang-questions] packet sniffing

[Angel Alvarez]

Hi

This remembered me some quiestion whether the inet driver is multihreaded or not.

Id dont really know if port solutions are taking benefit from the file driver (using the Async Pool)
where the inet driver relies directly select/poll and OS Kernel to leverage SMP support.

So the a driver with a libpcap interface would naturally have to make use of the async pool.

On the other side the aproach of patching inet to allow raw ports would not

I was thinking that on RAW mode a simple socket can produce a ton of bits (a lot of more than 
is usual usage on a TCP socket?)

I think Joe wants to avoid C code at all so the SOCK_RAW question, either a C driver poses the 
same C dependences...

so (im not sure the above statemente are all true) what's the best case?



/Angel

El Miércoles, 27 de Enero de 2010 00:35:23 Kaiduan Xie escribió:
> Is it possible to open raw socket and to send/recv packet in pure Erlang?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> kaiduan
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jachym Holecek <freza@REDACTED> wrote:
> > # Joe Armstrong 2010-01-26:
> >> Can I use the standard socket libraries to sniff all packets from an interface?
> >>
> >> I have a C driver that does
> >>
> >>           rawsock = socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(p ETH_P_IP))
> >
> > You're certainly aware of this, but for the record: this is Linux specific
> > code. For a portable solution, one would have create a port driver on top
> > of libpcap[*]. I don't know if that has been done though.
> >
> > Regards,
> >        -- Jachym
> >
> > [*] http://www.tcpdump.org/
> >
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