Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets

[Peter Steele]

Actually, I used to teach C, so yeah, I know it pretty well. :-)

Scapy is a possibility, I just need to add it to my environment (which doesn't have a C compiler). I can jury rig something though.

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:19:14 PM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Peter Steele <pwsteele at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > In fact, I have used scapy in the past, but I am working in a restricted environment and don't have this package available. It provides tones more than I really need anyway, and I figured a simple raw socket send/receive can't be *that* hard. I may have to reverse engineer some C code, such as dhclient...
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> Yeah, I think you're working with something fairly esoteric there -
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> bypassing the lower tiers of support (routing etc). Chances are you
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> won't find any good Python examples, and C's all you'll have. Are you
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> reasonably familiar with C?
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> Point to note: Raw sockets *may* require special privileges. Some
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> systems require that only root employ them, for security's sake.
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> ChrisA