Re: Question about sniffers and linux

[Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>]

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Hi salinarl!

You don't need to write a kernel module to do this.

Use RAW sockets. (See man 2 socket). If you're not interested in the link
layer, you can also use DGRAM sockets to get everything from layer 3 and up
(ip, arp, etc.)

> I am new to kernel internals, and I would like to know how can a sniffer
> read whole packets, I mean including the link layer header. In the receive
> path, this happens, I think,  in the net_rx_action(), but in the transmit
> path?
> I know that there is a function called dev_queue_xmit_nit() for this, but
> how can a driver add a link layer header to a packet before this function
> gets called? The hard_start_xmit() of the driver is, in fact, called after
> the dev_queue_xmit_nit(), (in the function dev_queue_xmit() ).
> I think I'm missing something important about the subject, but I hope someone 
> will answer me, anyway.
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Lanfranco
> 
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Regards
 Abraham

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