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MirkoBanchi
MirkoBanchi

Reputation: 2253

Sniffing 802.3 eth packets with socket raw

I'd need to sniff on an interface BPDU (bridge protocol data unit) packets which are encapsulated in eth frames of type 802.3 with LLC header. I tried to open a socket raw:

skd = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_802_3))

but trying to sniff packets i can't catch them. Looking at include/linux/if_ether.h seems that ETH_P_802_3 was a dummy type...is there a solution or i should use ETH_P_ALL and analize the EtherType field of the ethernet header?

Thank you all!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1273

Answers (1)

Edward Thomson
Edward Thomson

Reputation: 78673

Sorry, I'm not sure if your question is regarding the ETH_P_ALL flag or if your sniffer simply doesn't work.

I would recommend using ETH_P_ALL and decoding the headers yourself.

If your sniffers not working, make sure that you have promiscuous mode on? From the command line, you can use ifconfig eth0 promisc, assuming your ethernet device is eth0. Or you can set the IFF_PROMISC flag on your device using ioctl.

All that said, unless you have a good reason not to, it's probably strongly worth your while to not reinvent the wheel and simply use libpcap.

Upvotes: 1

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