[erlang-questions] packet sniffing

[Kaiduan Xie]

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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