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Re: Cygwin and raw sockets - Windows XP with SP2 , Vista and later
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 01/06/2010 09:51 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote:
>>
>> I got the below info from
>> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-sockets ?-
>> 'Socket-related calls in Cygwin basically call the functions by the
>> same name in Winsock, Microsoft's implementation of Berkeley sockets,
>> but with lots of tweaks.'
>> But, It does not clearly convey whether cygwin uses Microsoft's
>> winsock . Does cygwin use winsock ?
>> If cygwin uses winsock, then i think the raw socket usage restrictions
>> applied for further releases from 'Windows XP with SP2' is applicable
>> for cygwin also.:-(
>
> Cygwin does not provide its own implementation for sockets. ?It uses
> Winsock V2 so basic restrictions imposed by Winsock will constrain
> Cygwin as well.
>
Larry, Thx for the clarification.
But, I came across the below link that conveys that the network
support in Cygwin is supposed to provide the POSIX API, not the
Winsock API -
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.api.html#faq.api.net-functions
What does the above link refer to ?
Interestingly ,the below link conveys that raw sockets is supported
unofficially ! Strange !
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00753.html
But, how & why is it supported unofficially ?
The below link seems to convey the problems of using the Raw sockets
with Winsock and it also about the restrictions w.r.t various windows
releases -
http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/advanced.html#rawsocket
So, is the method of usage of winpcap is the only way to use raw
sockets in cygwin environment ?
From http://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs_41b5/html/main.html , I find
that the purpose of WinPcap is to give this kind of access to Win32
applications that it provides facilities to:
1. transmit raw packets 2. capture raw packets and 3. filter the packets
Any other ideas/ways apart from winpcap to use raw sockets in cygwin
environment ?
Thx in advans,
Karthik Balaguru
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