How do I create RAW TCP/IP packets in C++?

Question

I\'m a beginning C++ programmer / network admin, but I figure I can learn how to do this if someone points me in the right direction. Most of the tutorials are demonstrated

Answer 1

For TCP client side:

Use gethostbyname to lookup dns name to IP, it will return a hostent structure. Let's call this returned value host.

hostent *host = gethostbyname(HOSTNAME_CSTR);

Fill the socket address structure:

sockaddr_in sock;
sock.sin_family = AF_INET;
sock.sin_port = htons(REMOTE_PORT);
sock.sin_addr.s_addr = ((struct in_addr *)(host->h_addr))->s_addr;

Create a socket and call connect:

s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); 
connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sock, sizeof(sock))

For TCP server side:

Setup a socket

Bind your address to that socket using bind.

Start listening on that socket with listen

Call accept to get a connected client. <-- at this point you spawn a new thread to handle the connection while you make another call to accept to get the next connected client.

General communication:

Use send and recv to read and write between the client and server.

Source code example of BSD sockets:

You can find some good example code of this at wikipedia.

Further reading:

I highly recommend this book and this online tutorial:

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