TCP connect() scanning is the most basic form of TCP scanning. The program performs a connect() command on those ports of the target machine which are to be checked. If the port is open then the connect() command will succeed and a connection will be established. If the port is closed the connect() function would [...]
A previous post mentions how to send raw packets using winsock api on windows xp. Winpcap is a packet driver useful for packet capturing and sending raw packets on the windows platform.
Raw means we have to cook the whole packet ourselves. A TCP packet for example consists of:
1. Ethernet header
2. IP header
3. TCP header
4. The [...]
Port Scanning searches for open ports on a remote system. The basic logic for a portscanner would be to connect to the port we want to check. If the socket gives a valid connection without any error then the port is open , closed otherwise (or inaccessible, or filtered).
Introduction
Its no new fact that when we type a web address in our browser a dns request is immediately send by our browser to a DNS server to get the IP address of that web address.In winsock applications we achieve this by gethostbyname() and things are pretty simple.In this article we shall do this simple [...]
Introduction
Ever since windows 2000/XP when IP_HDRINCL became a valid option for setsockopt() , WSAIoctl() had another option called SIO_RCVALL which enabled a raw socket to sniff all incoming traffic over the selected interface to whose IP the socket was bound.Hence to make a sniffer in Winsock he simple steps are :
Introduction
Raw sockets, or “Raw Packets”, give you the facility to access the entire contents of a packet or datagram, both for reading and writing purpose. In other words, you can fabricate a whole packet according to your likes and dislikes. For example, a TCP packet would contain an IP header, a TCP header, and then [...]
