Raw UDP sockets Raw udp sockets are used to constructed udp packets with a application defined custom header. It is useful in security related network applications. The udp header can be found in RFC 768 and has a very simple structure as shown below. 0 7 8 15 16 23 24 31 +——–+——–+——–+——–+ | Source… Read More »
Raw sockets Raw sockets allow a program or application to provide custom headers for the specific protocol(tcp ip) which are otherwise provided by the kernel/os network stack. In more simple terms its for adding custom headers instead of headers provided by the underlying operating system. Raw socket support is available natively in the socket api… Read More »
Syn Flood Syn flood program sends out a large number of syn packets to a destination host such that the destination host gets under heavy pressure to reply to all of them and hence consumes huge amount of memory/cpu resources without any real purpose. This causes the services of the remote host to become unavailable… Read More »