[Caml-list] socket PF_PACKET

[Caml-list] socket PF_PACKET

[Alex Efros]

Hi!

As far as I see in unix.mli, OCaml at this time don't support other
domains than PF_INET and PF_UNIX. Is it exists a way to create PF_PACKET
socket in OCaml? If not - is PF_PACKET support will be added in next
OCaml release?

-- 
			WBR, Alex.

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Re: [Caml-list] socket PF_PACKET

[Alex Efros]

Hi!

It seems like nobody reply to my simple question sent a couple of days ago.
If nobody in this list know answer, then maybe you can point me to some
emails of people who may answer this question?

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:08:41AM +0300, Alex Efros wrote:
> As far as I see in unix.mli, OCaml at this time don't support other
> domains than PF_INET and PF_UNIX. Is it exists a way to create PF_PACKET
> socket in OCaml? If not - is PF_PACKET support will be added in next
> OCaml release?

-- 
			WBR, Alex.

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Re: [Caml-list] socket PF_PACKET

[Francois Rouaix]

I'll give it a try, although my answer is not authoritative...
If PF_PACKET is Linux only, as I believe it is, it is unlikely that it 
will be
added in the default Unix library, which mostly conforms to Posix 
standards.
On the other hand, it should be fairly obvious for someone to write 
another
version of socket() that supports it, and package it in a "Linux" 
module.
--f
PS: Don't assume that your question is simple because you know what 
PF_PACKET is...

> It seems like nobody reply to my simple question sent a couple of days 
> ago.
> If nobody in this list know answer, then maybe you can point me to some
> emails of people who may answer this question?
>
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:08:41AM +0300, Alex Efros wrote:
>> As far as I see in unix.mli, OCaml at this time don't support other
>> domains than PF_INET and PF_UNIX. Is it exists a way to create 
>> PF_PACKET
>> socket in OCaml? If not - is PF_PACKET support will be added in next
>> OCaml release?
>
> -- 
> 			WBR, Alex.
>
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Re: [Caml-list] socket PF_PACKET

[Kip Macy]

> 
> I'll give it a try, although my answer is not authoritative...
> If PF_PACKET is Linux only, as I believe it is, it is unlikely that it 
> will be
> added in the default Unix library, which mostly conforms to Posix 
> standards.

from the packet(7) man page on my linux desktop:
NOTES
       For  portable  programs  it  is suggested to use PF_PACKET via
       pcap(3); although this only covers a subset of the PF_PACKET 
       features.


A module to interface to libpcap, (which runs on all UN*X hosts I know of)
might be an approach sufficiently general to be incorporated into the 
distribution. 


				-Kip

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