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Hi all!
After surfing the web I ended up here as I could not find a good answer!
I am writing an application with c++ and gtkmm.
I want to access the network card and listen on all ports for packages.
As far as I have found out it is good to use glibc and sys/socket.h to
be able to to send and resieve over the network, but if you use a socket
you assign to a specific port, but I want to listen on all ports for incoming packages
on my host. I far as I understand you can put the network card in some type of
listen mood but where do I find the info on how?
And what header file, function to use?
Please point me in the right direction!

Many thanks in advance!!

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Hi,

You need to setup your ethernet card in promiscuous mode, in linux you can use the commands to see every packet.

ifconfig eth0 promisc - Put nic into promiscuous mode to sniff traffic.
tcpdump -n host not XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX | more - Sniff net but ignore IP which is your remote session.
ifconfig eth0 -promisc - Pull nic out of promiscuous mode.

tcpdump uses libpcap to listen every packet. Download the library and tcpdump codes.


Opensource is the best thing ever happened to programmers.

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Thank you alwaysLearning0!!
I have started looking into pcap and compiled my first program!

I am with you all the way:
Opensource is the best!!

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