Re: Questions about Gnat.sockets and raw socket

["loïc maury" <lmaury@gmail.com>]

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