From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T08:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: promiscuous mode

On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Marco Biscetti  
> <bisciasia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i have a wireless card of netgear and i want to make a code in ruby  
>> that
>> set it in a promiscuous mode to read all packet in a lan for catch  
>> and
>> block all wrong packet. (wrong packet according at rule of my boss).
>> this program run in ubuntu 9.04 :)
>> thank to all :)

If you are already running under Ubuntu 9.04, why do you want to write  
a program to do this at all?  Does something like 'iptables' satisfy  
the 'wrong packet according at rule of my boss'?

Ruby is a very high-level language in which to be examining every  
packet on a LAN.

-Rob

>
> just use:
>
> system("<insert shell command to enable promisc mode>")
>
> That's how you'd do it in ruby.  The problem *you* have to answer is
> what that shell command actually is.
>
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> Aaron Turner
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>

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