Hi Alireza Torabi! 

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:43:52 +0000; Alireza Torabi wrote about 'bpf packet 
capture and SOCK_STREAM socket redirects...':

> Is it possible to redirect/send/divert a bpf packet capture of one
> interface to a listening tcp socket on another interface of the same
> machine?
> Here is my problem:
> I'm capturing packets on one interface but for some specific tcp
> packets let's say from host A to host B on port P, I want to hijack
> the packet and send it to a listening tcp socket on the other
> interface and reply an "Access Denied" message.

> I'd like to use the tcp socket on the other interface as it's not
> possible to communicate over the interface that's doing the packet
> capture and I don't want to invent the wheel by doing all the tcp/tcb
> states hence using a tcp socket.

But if that's a middle of connection, how would you do? Kernel sockets assume
they've acted in a conversation from the very beginning SYN's, so if you
redirect such packet, socket will not understand it.

If you yopu want to simply close/reset connection, however, this can be done
somehow.

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