[Courses] [Security] Raw sockets (was: netstat status field)

[Raven, corporate courtesan]

Heya --

Quoth Malcolm-Rannirl Windtree (Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:13:44PM -0500):
> As I understood it, you could still create and send raw packets from 
> windows using userspace tools, you just had to implement the whole 
> section of the stack yourself.
 
	I don't know; I'm not a Windows programmer at all.  (It's been
nearly two years or so since I used a Windows workstation on anything
resembling a regular basis, and longer since I did any Windows
sysadmin.)  I hadn't heard this, but it would be interesting it were
true, since that would pretty much shoot holes in the complaints of the
XP-raw-socket-dislikers.  Do you (or anyone else) know how this would be
done under Windows sans raw sockets, in such a way that you could
explain it to non-Windows-programmers?

Cheers,
Raven

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 order of nature."
  -- me, after too long a day at work