Is my program is correct to print packet data part at IP layer?
Rusty Russell
rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Sun Jan 2 00:59:02 CET 2005
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 04:13 -0800, linux lover wrote:
> Respected sir,
> I request you to please check my program
> and reply me whether it is the correct way of getting
> packets data part at IP layer? I am using netfilter
> and dumping its output to unsigned string. I just want
> to know the results return by following program is
> correct or wrong?
Hi,
The data field may not be linear; it will be in pieces for many
packets. Also, skb->data will point at the IP header, not the data
within the packet. I recommend looking at ip_conntrack_ftp which has to
look inside TCP packets, for example.
Good luck!
Rusty.
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