Re: Questions about Gnat.sockets and raw socket

["loïc maury" <lmaury@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 23 avril 2015 14:52:45 UTC+2, loïc maury a écrit :
> Le jeudi 23 avril 2015 14:19:04 UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:21:00 -0700 (PDT), loďc maury wrote:
> > 
> > > For a personal project, I want to create a packet analyzer.
> > > Can I use Gnat.socket, for raw socket programming ? it is not clear
> > > for me, and unfortunately I didn't found any answers in the ada groups.
> > > 
> > > I will use it under Windows.
> > 
> > The short answer is no, it would not go.
> > 
> > Windows does not support raw sockets (naturally GNAT.Sockets does not do
> > either). Under Windows you will need a so-called NDIS driver to handle
> > packets away of the network stack, and Ada bindings to.
> > 
> > I can recommend an inexpensive NDIS driver we are successfully using under
> > Windows:
> > 
> >    http://www.rawether.net
> > 
> > We also have Windows bindings to it, but they are proprietary.
> > 
> > P.S. Under Linux you would use raw sockets. GNAT.Sockets does not support
> > them, but it is relatively simple to adapt.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Dmitry A. Kazakov
> > http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
> 
> Hello Dmitry,
> 
> Thank you for the quick answer.
> 
> Maybe NDIS open source project exist, I will try to find one.
> 
> Best
> 
> Loic

Maybe I found a solution, with Winpcap, I can create a binding for this
library.