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Old 01-18-2008, 05:54 AM
Jon Gomez
 
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Default Re: Programming a packet sniffer in C++

TCS wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:26:27 -0500, Simon L <xm@ca.inter.net> wrote:
>>Hi there,
>> I was wondering what were the libraries out there available to make my
>> own
>>kind of 'tcpdump' in C++? Or maybe it would be more easy to ask the
>>firewall or tcpdump to send the interesting packets to my program through
>>a socket or something?

>
> or learn how to use ethereal.


Use tcpdump with output to a FIFO, selecting packets using the packet
display filter expressions? Read from FIFO with your program?

Jon.

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