Re: Please suggest me

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 14:18:44 EST


On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Dipak Biswas wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm quite new to linux world. I've a very awkard question for you.
> That is: I'm writting an user process, where I need all outgoing
> IP packets to be blocked and captured. First, is it really possible? If
> yes, how? I don't want to make any kernel source code changes. A wild
> guess: by configuration changes, is it possible to make IP process write
> on to a particular FD which I can read when I require?
>
> Thanks,
> dipak
>

Get the source-code of `tcpdump` and see how packet capturing is done.
You can also look at `ipchains` to see how to block packets.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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