in reply to Intercepting UDP broadcasts

I have never written a 'snooper' type programme in Perl, but I recall that recently I was scanning through a book titled "Programming the Network in Perl" (from a guy in Ireland, not the Lincoln Stein book). I saw some code in there called EtherSnooper. The only thing I could find in a search was this: http://users.telenet.be/jurgen.kobierczynski/support/ethersnooper.pl.txt

Looking at the source code it would seem that a series of modules in the NetPacket namespace would make it a soda to write something which would acheive the result, but not as elegantly as a direct implementation.

I don't know if this info will be useful, but I hope so!

jdtoronto

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Re: Intercepting UDP broadcasts
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 30, 2004 at 16:18 UTC
    I'm not interested in snooping, certainly not on the ethernet level. I want to write a prototype for a special purpose DHCP server. Having the kernel push all ethernet (or all UDP) traffic into userland is not an option.

    But I'll look at the reference.

    Abigail

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      Fair enough too. Now you explain what you are doing then I am completely lost - at least in Perl land!

      ...john

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