Re: Point me in the right direction - Monitor a Mulicast IP address or stream

Hi there,
From one new person to another, the first suggestion I would have is that whenever you wonder 'can I do X..?' -always go to search.cpan.org first and search for modules there with good keywords. I have not done all of what you are asking to do with Perl, but I have monitored packets with nmap. Anyways, I have emailed from Perl on many occasions quite successfully with MIME::Entity and MIME::Lite. I personally prefer to use the former. Both of those module's documentation can be found on CPAN. Searching 'IP packets' at CPAN yielded the module NetPacket::IP as the first result. So that may be a good place to start.
If you are using Active State Perl, I suggest running 'ppm install <module-name-here>' on any of those to get you started.

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Re^2: Point me in the right direction - Monitor a Mulicast IP address or stream by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Aug 20, 2013 at 15:12 UTC
PerlSufi: your reply about NetPacket would certainly help in the direction of implementing the 'tcpdump' approach the OP mentioned. May I also suggest the Net::Frame suite as I believe it is more complete based on number of CPAN results returned. That and I also have a bias as I use it (very easy) and have written a few extensions (IPv6 and extension headers, DNS, RIP/ng, etc...) for it. Ultimately, I think the IO::Socket::Multicast route with your recommendation of a MIME package for emailing is the best way to go. But then again, TMTOWTDI!	[reply]
Re^3: Point me in the right direction - Monitor a Mulicast IP address or stream by PerlSufi (Friar) on Aug 20, 2013 at 15:38 UTC
VinsWorldcom: looking at the documentation, IO::Socket::Multicast looks great, indeed. :)	[reply]
Re^2: Point me in the right direction - Monitor a Mulicast IP address or stream by jasonjackal (Initiate) on Aug 20, 2013 at 19:04 UTC
Thank you for suggesting "Active State Perl". At this point I might use this, since I was a little lost at configuring CPAN on a company server. The latter is due to a number off errors being generated during the install of a package from CPAN, yet I did not fully understand the errors, which I suspect is due to being new with Perl and CPAN. Yet, I am very eger to learn Perl. However, I will still need to learn CPAN, since the very end product will need to be installed on a CentOS6.3 box that is located at a very remote site. thanks again JJ	[reply]
Re^3: Point me in the right direction - Monitor a Mulicast IP address or stream by PerlSufi (Friar) on Aug 20, 2013 at 19:37 UTC
Yeah some module's dependencies are difficult to resolve.. usually you will get CPAN errors for things like that. Happy Perl-ing :)	[reply]