Re: [Boost-users] [asio] promiscuous mode?

Greetings -- On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Ryan McConnehey wrote:

If winpcap or some such library is installed on a machine is it possible to have asio read from the Ethernet card in promiscuous mode?

OvermindDL1 wrote:

Is possible, but would need to build a new backend for it to read from the winpcap service instead of the normal TCP stack.

Ryan McConnehey writes:

What is the level of difficulty?

It might be less efficient, but a quick implementation might be to use a helper app that just reads packets sequentially (e.g., tcpdump), then have the ASIO-based program process the output from that helper asynchronously. t.