Re: network programming in php
| From: | Bug Hunter | Date: | Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:37:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: network programming in php | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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You have to put the network card in the promiscuous mode, which quickly
overloads an interpreted language.
Look at traffshow and tcpdump, both programs are good for monitoring. I
believe you can cause them to only dump a certain number of packets to a
file. You could exec them from PHP.
bug
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Kevin Beckford wrote:
> Ok, let me rephrase this question:
> I need to write a program to monitor network packets. The OS is Linux. In
> this specific case I'll be monitoring packet traffic on a hub, but I'd like to
> do it in a more general fashion, just in case the unthinkable happens, and
> someone changes their mind. :) How would I go about getting started with this?