From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Questions about Gnat.sockets and raw socket
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:19:13 +0200
Date: 2015-04-23T14:19:13+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64xtlkgbv1qk.139l2vds2na5p.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 67547c2b-9302-4bbc-9865-523772248e3b@googlegroups.com
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:21:00 -0700 (PDT), loïc 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
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2015-04-23 9:21 Questions about Gnat.sockets and raw socket loïc maury
2015-04-23 12:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2015-04-23 12:52 ` loïc maury
2015-04-23 15:41 ` loïc maury
2015-04-23 16:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-04-23 17:32 ` Qun-Ying
2015-04-28 10:21 ` loïc maury
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