Thread: Read communication data of process by port number

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    Question Read communication data of process by port number

    Hello All,

    I made 2 programs winserver.exe and winclient.exe file. Both program are sending and receiving message by socket. I am wanting to make 3rd program which will fetch data of receiving and sending by PORT number of pc. This 3rd program will be kept on both pc and when both client and server will be communicate then this 3rd program will track messages of communication.

    Is this possible to find data in socket by PORT number (hooking program)?

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    You may want to investigate libpcap. The only way you can do this without directly intercepting the data (eg, having the data send by the server to the third program to pass on to the client, and the same thing in reverse) is to go below the tcp/ip socket layer. The only way I know to do that is with pcap.

    If you want an understanding of what this is about, check out a packet sniffer such as "Wireshark", which uses libpcap.
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    Red face

    #include <pcap.h> /* if this gives you an error try pcap/pcap.h */

    #include <sys/socket.h>
    #include <netinet/in.h>
    #include <arpa/inet.h>
    #include <netinet/if_ether.h> /* includes net/ethernet.h */

    I am not getting these header file in my include directory . Can anybody from where i can download these headers. I am using Vc++6 and Dev c++. in both inerface i am getting error.

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    I'm guessing you shouldn't be including Unix headers on a Windows system. You need winpcap (and I don't think it comes "out of the box") and winsock. I don't know whether you'll need an equivalent for the ethernet header, and if you do, I don't know what it is.

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