Packet Sniffer

Killswitch · Post by **Killswitch** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:42 am

I've been interested in wrighting a packet sniffer for a while now, but I've never been able to find a decent amount of documentation or examples of such a program in PB. Now with PB4 on the verge of release I thought it might be about time to fireup this old project.

Does anyone here have any idea how I'd go about this?

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:44 am

Don't know exactly but probably with "Hook" API functions...

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:11 pm

I was searching info to such thing (sniffer, firewall ...) and found that it is a very hard task, you will have to code a driver using the ndis interface wich is impossible to do with purebasic (you need the ddk) or at least, until the ddk is natively callable (sorry for my bad english ^^) from PB.
I think that the better thing to do to ease this task is to use winpcap, a network packet driver, used for example by Ethereal.

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:50 pm

I think you can make a packet sniffer by forwarding/proxy, not sure.

Killswitch · Post by **Killswitch** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:08 pm

Thanks for the link KarLKoX - thanks to the rest of you guys as well

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