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From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Snooping on sockets/file descriptors
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:19:20 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=1AQqHaeKr5YhoRahAPLOj163w99m8c5ud6JeS@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinjcH=hvzdDZVCJNbrPjA08aAZ6Y8myiv8NmP=J@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 03:04, Vimal <j.vimal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
>>
>> How about tcpdump?
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> tcpdump is good, but it doesn't solve all problems. ?There are a few reasons:
>
> * TCP packets could arrive out of order
> * The data needn't belong to a valid TCP connection
> * The app could just discard data (close/flush/etc)
>
> In short, there is a lot of state and complex logic which act on the
> packets before it is seen by the application.

then, something like dtrace or systemtap? IMO you're looking for kinda
combo of kernel mode + user land "sniffer"... the user land sniffer,
in it's very simple form, is by using LD_PRELOAD ...

-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-01  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTimuc_tuZ9kVJU6q6CXDzE737vZYvfrKekN+SzcM@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-31 19:29 ` Snooping on sockets/file descriptors Vimal
2011-03-31 19:58   ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-31 20:04     ` Vimal
2011-04-01  0:19       ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2011-04-01  7:23         ` Vimal
2011-04-01 13:34           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-04-01 15:28             ` Vimal
2011-04-04 15:43   ` Florin Malita

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