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Monday, May 15, 2000

More MONitoring of the NETwork

So I'm still working on monnet. I basically started over from scratch, reworking the code although the basic structure is the same from the old version. The output from the program looks like:

0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.72.81   TCP     25945    80  A    
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.72.81   208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25945  AP   
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.72.81   208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25945  AP  F
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.72.81   TCP     25945    80  A    
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.191  TCP     25944    80  A   F
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.190  TCP     25950    80     S 
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.72.81   TCP     25945    80  A   F
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.74.218  208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25944    R  
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.74.190  208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25950  A  S 
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.190  TCP     25950    80  A    
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.72.81   208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25945  A    
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.190  TCP     25950    80  AP   
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.74.190  208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25950  A    
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.74.190  208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25950  AP   
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.190  TCP     25950    80  A    
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.74.190  208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25950  AP   
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.74.190  208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25950  A   F
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.190  TCP     25950    80  A    
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.190  TCP     25950    80  A   F
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        205.229.74.190  208.26.72.3     TCP        80 25950  A    
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 IPv4        208.26.72.3     205.229.74.190  TCP     26000    80     S 
02608CD87517 00C07B4D7D81 ARP         A:request ETH:IPv4 208.26.72.2     208.26.72.1    
00C07B4D7D81 02608CD87517 ARP         A:reply   ETH:IPv4 208.26.72.1     208.26.72.2    
0040332E103C 00C07B4D7D81 ARP         A:request ETH:IPv4 208.26.72.3     208.26.72.1    
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C ARP         A:reply   ETH:IPv4 208.26.72.1     208.26.72.3    
00C07B4D7D81 0040332E103C IPv4        208.26.72.1     208.26.72.3     ICMP    redirect host             208.26.72.4

And the report it can generate:

Total:                                                         64,813   13.45M
    IPv4                                                       64,017   12.55M
        ICMP                                                      245   16.34K
            echo reply                                             18    1.23K
            error                                                 147   10.15K
                host unreachable                                    4     436 
                port unreachable                                  142    9.68K
                comm prohibited by filters                          1      46 
            redirect                                                8     368 
                host                                                8     368 
            echo request                                           18    1.21K
            TTL                                                    54    2.43K
                > 0 during transit                                 54    2.43K
        TCP                                                    58,998   11.66M
        UDP                                                     4,774  516.03K
    ARP                                                           796   33.38K
        A:request                                                 425   17.35K
        A:reply                                                   371   16.03K

Generating that report while the program is running was tricky. I didn't want to loose any packets so creating a thread or process (I am doing this under Unix) to handle that should minimize the number of packets lost. I'll skip threads since personally I don't like the way pthreads works (I think the API sucks but that's me and I really can't quantify it more than that) and that leaves fork() (at least under Unix).

But I don't feel that good about the code, since I'm now dealing with signals, and the semantics of signals under Unix is … well … it sucks. I'm sure I have race conditions in there.

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