[erlang-questions] IP packet manipulation within Erlang

[Trevor Woollacott]

> 2010/1/7 Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@REDACTED>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How suitable is Erlang for a small project where I'd like to
>>
>> - grab all incoming IP packets
>> - perform some IP header manipulation
>> - send out the modified packets
>>
>> I'm aware I need some kind of bpf/pcap driver to get the packets into
>> Erlang (or does Erlang now have something in this front).
>>
>> Do you guys have any idea how fast this whole thing would be compared to
>> doing same in normal userland C program? Or even compared to doing the
>> manipulation within Linux kernel.
>>
>
> I attempted this a few years ago. I tried to write a linked in driver 
> which
> got packets from libipq [1]. That was painful. So I dumped the idea of 
> using
> erlang at all, and did it all in C which was pretty straightforward and
> worked quite well. I didn't put any large load on it, but it was enough 
> for
> what I was doing at the time.
>
> cheers
> Chandru
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libipq
>

Hi Chandru

Do you mind elaborating on the issues that you experienced when writing the 
linked in driver using libipq?

Regards,
Trevor