/* arp/arp.c */ #include "arp.h" /* Sends an ARP request sockfd is the file descriptor of the socket to use to send the frame, should be a raw socket (AF_PACKET), which accepts ARP (ETH_P_ALL or ETH_P_ARP) ifindex is the index of the network interface ipaddr is the source IP address macaddr is the source MAC address target_ip is the IP address to be queried via ARP The function returns 0 upon success, EXIT_FAILURE otherwise. */ int send_arp_request(int sockfd, int ifindex, struct sockaddr_in *ipaddr, unsigned char *macaddr, struct in_addr target_ip) { /* DEFINITION OF THE DESTINATION */ /* The destination of the packet is contained in a struct sockaddr_ll, that we fill with the broadcast address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff */ /* Broadcast address: */ const unsigned char ether_broadcast_addr[]= {0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff}; struct sockaddr_ll addr; addr.sll_family = AF_PACKET; /* always AF_PACKET */ addr.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ARP); /* physical-layer protocol */ addr.sll_ifindex = ifindex; /* interface number */ addr.sll_halen = ETHER_ADDR_LEN; /* length of address */ /* physical-layer address: */ memcpy(addr.sll_addr, ether_broadcast_addr, ETHER_ADDR_LEN); #ifdef DEBUG printf("[OK] Destination structure (struct sockaddr_ll) " "constructed successfully\n"); #endif /* ====================================================================== */ /* CONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAME */ /* We can now build the ARP request frame, using the structures defined in (included by ). */ struct ether_arp request; request.arp_hrd = htons(ARPHRD_ETHER); /* hardware type: Ethernet */ request.arp_pro = htons(ETH_P_IP); /* Protocol type: IP */ request.arp_hln = ETHER_ADDR_LEN; /* Hardware address length */ request.arp_pln = sizeof(in_addr_t); /* Protocol address length */ request.arp_op = htons(ARPOP_REQUEST); /* Operation code */ /* Target hardware address: 0 since this is one we want */ memset(&request.arp_tha, 0, sizeof(request.arp_tha)); /* Target protocol address: we put the IP address for which we want the layer-2 address */ memcpy(&request.arp_tpa, &target_ip.s_addr, sizeof(request.arp_tpa)); /* Source hardware address */ memcpy(&request.arp_sha, macaddr, sizeof(request.arp_sha)); /* Source protocol (IP) address */ memcpy(&request.arp_spa, &ipaddr->sin_addr, sizeof(request.arp_spa)); #ifdef DEBUG printf("[OK] ARP request structure (struct ether_arp) " "constructed successfully\n"); #endif /* ====================================================================== */ /* SEND THE FRAME */ int err = sendto(sockfd, &request, sizeof(request), 0, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr)); if (err == -1) { perror("[FAIL] sendto()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } #ifdef DEBUG printf("[OK] Frame sent\n"); #endif return 0; }