[clug] multiple network ports on one machine

[Robert Edwards]

Hi Michael,

scapy looks pretty cool - thanks for the pointer.

But, seems to me that you are not really sending UDP packets as much
as sending raw Ethernet frames dressed up to look like UDP datagrams.
Not sure if that counts as far as the OP is concerned...

I'll have to have a closer look at scapy in any case.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

Michael Cohen wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>   Thats not exactly correct as its pretty easy to send a packet using
> a raw socket on any interface you want bypassing any internal routing
> tables. A good quick tool for this would be to use scapy:
> 
> http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/demo.html
> 
> For example:
> 
> scapy.sendp( Ether()/IP(dst="www.slashdot.org")/UDP(dport = 53)/"Some
> data", iface="eth1")
> 
> May not be exactly right - just have a play.
> 
> Scapy is not quick but its great for rapid prototyping - i have some C
> code for raw sockets around here somewhere if anyone wants (I had to
> write a working multicast router a while ago).
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 2009/3/30 Robert Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au>:
>> Adrian wrote:
>>> To do some testing I wish to send UDP packets out on one Ethernet
>>> interface, through a switch, and back in on another interface of a 4
>>> port machine.  What would be the basic server and client code to do this
>>> or point me to some basic docs.
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>>
>> Not really all that easy from the set-up point of view as the (Linux?)
>> IP routing code (UDP runs over IP) will detect that the outgoing
>> datagram is destined for an IP address on the same kernel instance
>> and so will route it directly internally instead of sending it out
>> on the physical link. You may be able to do it with virtual machines
>> etc. but then all the virtualisation overheads will hurt any
>> performance measurements etc.
>>
>> Writing code to send/receive UDP datagrams is generally trivial. NetCat
>> (nc) can do it for you with no code involved, otherwise see Beej's
>> network programming guide for examples in C and elsewhere on the web
>> for examples in Java, Python, Perl etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bob Edwards.
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