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I am sending TCP SYN packets (with no payload) to a webserver in the same network. I am using sniffex.c for capturing the packets .

The problem is that after I send a SYN packet, I do not receive the SYN/ACK packet from server.

In sniffex.c: I have used my LAN IP as the source ip. I have set the filter as "tcp" . I am sending to port 80

When i print the fields of the sent packet ,after i capture it using sniffex , all fields are printed correctly, hence i assume that the structure of the sent packet is such that the server can understand it.

When I connect to the webserver using browser, the SYN/ACK is received successfully.

Another related query: how do I set the filter such that I get packets relating to this conversation (b/w my pc and webserver) only

I am using UBUNTU 14.04

EDIT: The c file with which I am trying to send the packet

#define __USE_BSD   /* use bsd'ish ip header */
#include <sys/socket.h> /* these headers are for a Linux system, but */
#include <netinet/in.h> /* the names on other systems are easy to guess.. */
#include <netinet/ip.h>
#define __FAVOR_BSD /* use bsd'ish tcp header */
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<memory.h>
#include<errno.h>
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include<sys/types.h>

#define P 80        /* lets flood the sendmail port */

unsigned short      /* this function generates header checksums */
csum (unsigned short *buf, int nwords)
{
  unsigned long sum;
  for (sum = 0; nwords > 0; nwords--)
    sum += *buf++;
  sum = (sum >> 16) + (sum & 0xffff);
  sum += (sum >> 16);
  return ~sum;
}

int 
main (void)
{
  int s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_TCP);
  printf("s=%d\n",s);   /* open raw socket */
  char datagram[4096];  /* this buffer will contain ip header, tcp header,
               and payload. we'll point an ip header structure
               at its beginning, and a tcp header structure after
               that to write the header values into it */
  struct ip *iph = (struct ip *) datagram;
  struct tcphdr *tcph = (struct tcphdr *) (datagram + sizeof (struct ip));
  struct sockaddr_in sin;
            /* the sockaddr_in containing the dest. address is used
               in sendto() to determine the datagrams path */

  sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
  sin.sin_port = htons (P);/* you byte-order >1byte header values to network
                  byte order (not needed on big endian machines) */
  sin.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr ("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");

  memset (datagram, 0, 4096);   /* zero out the buffer */

/* we'll now fill in the ip/tcp header values, see above for explanations */
  iph->ip_hl = 5;
  iph->ip_v = 4;
  iph->ip_tos = 0;
  iph->ip_len = sizeof (struct ip) + sizeof (struct tcphdr);    /* no payload */
  iph->ip_id = htonl (54321);   /* the value doesn't matter here */
  iph->ip_off = 0;
  iph->ip_ttl = 255;
  iph->ip_p = 6;
  iph->ip_sum = 0;      /* set it to 0 before computing the actual checksum later */
  iph->ip_src.s_addr = inet_addr ("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");/* SYN's can be blindly spoofed */
  iph->ip_dst.s_addr = sin.sin_addr.s_addr;
  tcph->th_sport = htons (2000);    /* arbitrary port */
  tcph->th_dport = htons (P);
  tcph->th_seq = random();/* in a SYN packet, the sequence is a random */
  tcph->th_ack = 0;/* number, and the ack sequence is 0 in the 1st packet */
  tcph->th_x2 = 5;
  tcph->th_off = 5;     /* first and only tcp segment */
  tcph->th_flags = TH_SYN;  /* initial connection request */
  tcph->th_win = htonl (65535); /* maximum allowed window size */
  tcph->th_sum = 0;/* if you set a checksum to zero, your kernel's IP stack
              should fill in the correct checksum during transmission */
  tcph->th_urp = 0;

  iph->ip_sum = csum ((unsigned short *) datagram, iph->ip_len >> 1);

/* finally, it is very advisable to do a IP_HDRINCL call, to make sure
   that the kernel knows the header is included in the data, and doesn't
   insert its own header into the packet before our data */

                /* lets do it the ugly way.. */
    int one = 1;
   // const int *val = &one;
    if (setsockopt (s, IPPROTO_IP, IP_HDRINCL, &one, sizeof (one)) < 0)
      printf ("Warning: Cannot set HDRINCL!\terrno = %d\n",errno);




 // while (1)
   // {
      if (sendto (s,        /* our socket */
          datagram, /* the buffer containing headers and data */
          iph->ip_len,  /* total length of our datagram */
          0,        /* routing flags, normally always 0 */
          (struct sockaddr *) &sin, /* socket addr, just like in */
          sizeof (sin)) < 0)        /* a normal send() */
    printf ("error\n");
      else
    printf ("SUCCESS\n\n\n\n");
    //}
char buffer[8192];
memset (buffer, 0, 8192);
int n;
//while(n=read (s, buffer, 8192) > 0)
//{
//printf("n=%d\n",n);

 //printf ("Caught tcp packet: %s\n", buffer);
 //memset (buffer, 0, 8192);
//}

  return 0;
}
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Your first step should be to use another program like wireshark or tcpdump to check if (1) your packet is actually hitting the wire and (2) if a reply is actually being sent or not. Then you should show your actual code.John Hascall
@JohnHascall I did that just know and could not find that packet in wireshark. But sniffex is able to capture the packet and displays all fields correctly .Please take a look again at the question , i have added the c file in which i am sending the packet.jps
If sniffex captured the packet that i sent, does it not ensure that the packet hit the wire?jps
I see one error right away: iph->ip_off = 0 /*10*/;John Hascall
I changed that , now that packet is being detected in wireshark but still there is no reply. I noticed that the SEQ was 0, is this normal?I mean shouldn't it be 23456 or random() (as i tried later)jps

1 Answers

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[Summary of chat session] In addition to the iph->ip_off issue, you may need to compute the TCP checksum yourself (your O/S may not do it for you). Useful info is here: http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPChecksumCalculationandtheTCPPseudoHeader-2.htm and http://www.netfor2.com/tcpsum.htm

Also tcph->th_seq = htonl(23456); may be useful.