CS241 Coursework - Packet Sniffer

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/teaching/material/cs241/coursework18-19/

A multi-threaded packet sniffer for detection of ARP poisoning packets, XMAS Tree packets and requests to blacklisted sited (hardcoded to www.bbc.co.uk)

Report

• Design

I designed something

1. Network Headers
2. Packet Sniff for Attacks
3. ThreadPool

• Implementation

I implemented it

1. Use of Structs
2. Linked List
3. Mutex
4. Threading (reduce share memory)

• Testing

Then tested it

1. Verbose
2. Valgrind
3. GDB
4. Helgrind
5. Git
6. Testing files