Divert Socket Ported to Windows

[Michael Bretterklieber]

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Matthew Grooms wrote:
> >Dear All
> >Is there any package like divert socket available or ported on windows ?
> >Thanx
> >Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
>
> Soheil,
>
>      Data is funneled to divert sockets by IPFW ( anyone, please correct
> me if Im wrong ) or a similar mechanism which are nonexistant on win32.
> The closest open-source thingy ( to my knowledge ) would be winpcap
> which is a port of libpcap. ( I believe on *nix this sits on top of BPF
> or LPF ) You can do raw netowrk data capture with it but not diversion.
>
>      Win32 uses a layered protocol stack for network services. Its
AFAIK, there exists a device-driver-kit from Microsoft, or something like
this, where you have the possibility to hook your app into the IP-stream.
Usualy Personal-Firewall are using this.

bye,
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