rakesh bahl wrote:
> How do you make your ethernet card on linux accept all the packets
> which are flowing on the segment?
Put it into promiscuous mode.
> I think I would have to write a driver which would communicate with
> the card and some sort of a skeleton TCP/IP stack so that the packet
> reaches the Application Layer.
>
> Am I right or is there an easier way?
You can create a socket of type SOCK_RAW or SOCK_PACKET. Take a look
at the code for libpcap (which is used by tcpdump) as an example.
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