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From: "Steve Graegert" <graegerts@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Creating a routing program - the basics
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:15:11 +0200
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To: Mateus Interciso <p.zarnick@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org

On 10/23/07, Mateus Interciso <p.zarnick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm currently on university, and for my graduation paper, I'll=
 be
> implementing a routing algorythm, by hand, in C.
> The routing algorythm itself is not easy, but one of the starting par=
ts
> of it, is to find a way of discovering the MAC that it is currently
> connected to, maybe is bether if I draw, since I'm not really that go=
od
> in english:
>
> [PC with n NICs]-----(n cables)---->[n PCs]
>
> I have full control of the first PC, of course, since is the one I'm
> implementing the router, so I do know the MAC of it, but how to disco=
ver
> the MAC on the other end of the n lines, so I can start sending packe=
ts?

Probably this is a starting point:  (not tested)

___ BEGIN SOURCE ___

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <netinet/if_ether.h>

int read_mac(void) {
	int sock, sockfd, n, cnt;
	char buffer[2048];
	unsigned char *iphead, *ethhead;
	struct ether_addr ether;

	if ((sock =3D socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_IP))) < 0) {
		perror("socket");
		exit(1);
	}

	while (1) {
		if ((n =3D recvfrom(sock, buffer, 2048, 0, NULL, NULL)) =3D=3D -1) {
			perror("recvfrom");
			close(sock);
			exit(1);
		}
=09
		ethhead =3D (unsigned char *)buffer;
	=09
		if (ethhead !=3D NULL) {
			iphead =3D (unsigned char *)(buffer + 14); // Skip Ethernet header		=
=09
			printf("Peer MAC: "
				"%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n",
				ethhead[0], ethhead[1], ethhead[2],
				ethhead[3], ethhead[4], ethhead[5]);
			printf("Source MAC: "
				"%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n",
				ethhead[6], ethhead[7], ethhead[8],
				ethhead[9], ethhead[10], ethhead[11]);

			if (*iphead =3D=3D 0x45) { // Check for IPv4, no options present
				printf("Peer IP: %d.%d.%d.%d\n",
					iphead[12], iphead[13],
					iphead[14], iphead[15]);
				printf("Source IP: %d.%d.%d.%d\n",
					iphead[16], iphead[17],
					iphead[18], iphead[19]);
				printf("Protocol (UDP =3D 11): %02x Hex\n", iphead[9]);
			}
		}
	}
=09
	return 0;
}


int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    read_mac();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

___ END SOURCE ___

Honestly, you should make yourself acquainted with low-level network
programming.  Otherwise you'll be asking a lot of theses questions in
the future.  Anyway, hope this helps.

	\Steve

--

Steve Gr=E4gert
DigitalEther.de
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