Re: snooper watchers

[casper () fwi uva nl (Casper Dik)]

> On Wed, 22 Feb 1995, Mark Graff wrote:
>
> > Internally, we've been looking into a couple of possibilities.
> > I don't know whether a decision has been made as to what to do;
> > I do know that it's a harder problem to solve than it might
> > appear, because of differences in the kernel/driver interface.
>
> That is apparent.  The fact that snoop doesn't trip the promiscious
> mode for ifconfig is what bothered me.  A preliminary truss of snoop
> showed it opening /dev/udp.  The problem I'm also running into is
> that lsof does not appear to work under 2.4, as some internal file
> structures have changed.  Someone has suggested doing some filtering
> on lsof output, as a way of keeping an eye out.

The kernel doesn't keep the PROMISC flag where ifconfig can easily find it
in Solaris 2.x.

Snoop opens /dev/udp primarily to do hostname resolution, I think.
(opening /dev/udp is needed when making udp sockets)
/dev/le, /dev/qe, /dev/ie and /dev/be are the devices to watch
(and whatever the fddi and ATM cards use as devices)

Lsof should work under 2.4, you just have to grab the latest version
and recompile for 2.4.  Some things changed but i got it to work
alright.

Casper