A brief programming tutorial in C for raw sockets

In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of using raw sockets in C, to insert any IP protocol based datagram into the network traffic. This is useful,for example, to build raw socket scanners like nmap, to spoof or to perform operations that need to send out raw sockets. Basically, you can send any packet at any time, whereas using the interface functions for your systems IP-stack (connect, write, bind, etc.) you have no direct control over the packets. This theoretically enables you to simulate the behavior of your OS's IP stack, and also to send stateless traffic (datagrams that don't belong to a valid connection). For this tutorial, all you need is a minimal knowledge of socket programming in C


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