Getting network connection for a specified PID

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Post: #1

Dec 9, 2006 — 07:23 AM

Hi!

IÂ´m currently writing an application that needs to find out, to which IP a specified process is connected to.
For example, when I have opened Quake 3 and connected to a server, then my app should tell me the IP of this server, but i dont have a clue how to do that.

I allready tried to get the IP like that:

Code:

lsof -i

This works for apps like adium or something like that. It prints the server, process name and process id.
But for Quake 3 or other games I only get something like that:

Code:

Quake3    3037  Flo   28u  IPv4 0x02943040      0t0  UDP *:27960

Why doesnÂ´t it tell me the IP, only the port?
And how do i get the IP?

Thanks in advance

OneSadCookie

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Post: #2

Dec 9, 2006 — 04:25 PM

UDP isn't a connection-based protocol.

Florian

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Post: #3

Dec 10, 2006 — 02:36 AM

So there is no simple way of getting the Server-IP?

OneSadCookie

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Post: #4

Dec 10, 2006 — 03:19 AM

Only by watching the traffic to see where it's going.

Florian

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Post: #5

Dec 23, 2006 — 03:05 AM

Hi!

Watching the traffic with tcpdump works quite good, but I ant to start tcpdump from my app and get the output. Since tcpdump must be startet as superuser, i cant do it via NSTask. Here is my code:

Code:

- (void)awakeFromNib

{

    OSStatus myStatus;

    AuthorizationFlags myFlags=kAuthorizationFlagDefaults;

    AuthorizationRef myAuthorizationRef;

    myStatus=AuthorizationCreate(NULL,kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment,myFlags,&myAuthorizationRef);

    if(myStatus==errAuthorizationSuccess){

        AuthorizationItem myItems={kAuthorizationRightExecute,0,NULL,0};

        AuthorizationRights myRights={1,&myItems};

        myFlags=kAuthorizationFlagDefaults| kAuthorizationFlagInteractionAllowed| kAuthorizationFlagPreAuthorize| kAuthorizationFlagExtendRights;

        myStatus=AuthorizationCopyRights(myAuthorizationRef,&myRights,NULL,myFlags,NULL);

        if(myStatus==errAuthorizationSuccess){

            FILE*myCommunicationsPipe=NULL;

            char*myArguments[]={ "-t",NULL};

            NSString *tool=@"/usr/sbin/tcpdump";

            myFlags=kAuthorizationFlagDefaults;

            myStatus=AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(myAuthorizationRef,[tool cString],myFlags,myArguments,&myCommunicationsPipe);

            NSFileHandle *myfilehandle=[[NSFileHandle alloc] initWithFileDescriptor:fileno(myCommunicationsPipe)];

            [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(copyData:) toTarget:self withObject:myfilehandle];

            fflush(myCommunicationsPipe);

        }

    }

    return;

}

- (void)copyData:(NSFileHandle*)handle {

    NSAutoreleasePool *pool=[[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

    NSData *data;

    while([data=[handle availableData] length]) {

        NSString *string=[[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

    NSLog(@"%@", string);

        [string release];

    }

    [pool release];

}

That prints the output of tcpdump in the Console, but not as NSLog. Very rarely I get something via NSLog, but normaly its just printed in the Console. But why?!
I cant use the Output, if I dont get it via NSLog...

Has anyone an idea?
Thanks in advance

OneSadCookie

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Post: #6

Dec 23, 2006 — 03:22 AM

Maybe it's printing to standard error?

Florian

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Post: #7

Dec 23, 2006 — 03:46 AM

OneSadCookie Wrote:Maybe it's printing to standard error?

Hm. But AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges doenst give a file handle to stderr back... How to get it then? And why prints NSLog something sometimes?

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