arp request and reply using c socket programming
A couple of things to get your packets on the wire/air.
- The proper .sll_protocol for the arp reply is ETH_P_ARP, from
<linux/if_ether.h> There was an error in endianness when setting ah->arp_op. It is a network byteorder field of 2 octets, so use htons().
In general, the code is a little confused about network and host byteorder. It currently sends out the reply very mangled, but it is unclear to me whether that is the malicious intent of the code, or an accident. In the case that you want to send real, correct IP addresses, use htonl and htons, when building the reply.
To fix endianness:
- Properly include
<arpa/inet.h> - Use htons(), htonl() ntohs() and ntohl(), always. Their implementation makes it a NOP, if its not needed on your platform.
- When setting up data to be sent out from host, always process it with hton*()
- When interpreting data from the network, always ntoh*() it before comparing with local variables.
In summary, the changes I did were 1) .sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ARP). (when sending data) 2) ah->arp_op = htons(ARPOP_REPLY) (in the reply arp) 3) Removed the nonsensical ntohs() on ah->arp_hd and ah->arp_pr. You dont want to convert data to host byteorder when populating the send buffer (unless you really really actually do) 4) Added ntohs() conversions and proper defines in some of the comparisons 5) some other small fixes 6) disabled the bit doing system("sudo...")!
Full code at pastebin. Here is a diff:
thuovila@glx:~/src/so/arp$ diff arp2.c arp_orig.c
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< #include <arpa/inet.h>
20c19
< #define DEVICE "eth1"
---
> #define DEVICE "eth0"
25c24
< int s = -1; /*Socketdescriptor*/
---
> int s = 0; /*Socketdescriptor*/
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< socket_address.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ARP);
---
> socket_address.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
95c94
< socket_address.sll_pkttype = 0; //PACKET_OTHERHOST;
---
> socket_address.sll_pkttype = PACKET_OTHERHOST;
112c111
< if(ntohs(eh->h_proto) == ETH_P_ARP)
---
> if(htons(eh->h_proto) == 0x806)
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< if(ntohs(ah->arp_op) != ARPOP_REQUEST)
---
> if(htons(ah->arp_op) != 0x0001)
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< #if 0
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< #endif
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< eh->h_proto = htons(ETH_P_ARP);
---
> eh->h_proto = ETH_ARP;
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< //ah->arp_hd = ntohs(ah->arp_hd);
< //ah->arp_pr = ntohs(ah->arp_pr);
---
> ah->arp_hd = ntohs(ah->arp_hd);
> ah->arp_pr = ntohs(ah->arp_pr);
203c200
< ah->arp_op = htons(ARPOP_REPLY);
---
> ah->arp_op = 0x0002;
EDIT Some wireshark advice. Capture ether proto 0x0806 (or arp for short). Use the pseudo device that captures any packets. Your packets should become visible.
On linux, if you want to stop the network stack from interfering, use: echo "8" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_ignore
EDIT #2 I am not completely sure about the ETH_P_ARP. It might have been a snap judgement on my part. Using ETH_P_IP is correct in the ARP header field, but Im not sure which one to use for the packet socket sll_protocol. Also notice that socket_address.sll_pkttype = PACKET_OTHERHOST;has no effect when sending (see man 7 packet). Also the mandatory SO observation, that you should always use at least -Wall (when using gcc or clang) as a compilation flag.
EDIT #3 I changed the program a little more. and updated the answer and diff accordingly. Surprisingly it does indeed seem, that .sll_protocol needs to be ETH_P_ARP. My copy of the man 7 packet doesnt even say it is used for anything, but the packet doesnt go out on the wire as ARP without it.
I took user6343961's code, did some cleaning and splicing and implemented support for automatically getting interface IP address. Also the parameters come from CLI instead of hardcoding. bind() is also used to get only ARP from the interface we want. Have fun. This code works for me.
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <asm/types.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/if_packet.h>
#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <linux/if_arp.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h> //htons etc
#define PROTO_ARP 0x0806
#define ETH2_HEADER_LEN 14
#define HW_TYPE 1
#define MAC_LENGTH 6
#define IPV4_LENGTH 4
#define ARP_REQUEST 0x01
#define ARP_REPLY 0x02
#define BUF_SIZE 60
#define debug(x...) printf(x);printf("\n");
#define info(x...) printf(x);printf("\n");
#define warn(x...) printf(x);printf("\n");
#define err(x...) printf(x);printf("\n");
struct arp_header {
unsigned short hardware_type;
unsigned short protocol_type;
unsigned char hardware_len;
unsigned char protocol_len;
unsigned short opcode;
unsigned char sender_mac[MAC_LENGTH];
unsigned char sender_ip[IPV4_LENGTH];
unsigned char target_mac[MAC_LENGTH];
unsigned char target_ip[IPV4_LENGTH];
};
/*
* Converts struct sockaddr with an IPv4 address to network byte order uin32_t.
* Returns 0 on success.
*/
int int_ip4(struct sockaddr *addr, uint32_t *ip)
{
if (addr->sa_family == AF_INET) {
struct sockaddr_in *i = (struct sockaddr_in *) addr;
*ip = i->sin_addr.s_addr;
return 0;
} else {
err("Not AF_INET");
return 1;
}
}
/*
* Formats sockaddr containing IPv4 address as human readable string.
* Returns 0 on success.
*/
int format_ip4(struct sockaddr *addr, char *out)
{
if (addr->sa_family == AF_INET) {
struct sockaddr_in *i = (struct sockaddr_in *) addr;
const char *ip = inet_ntoa(i->sin_addr);
if (!ip) {
return -2;
} else {
strcpy(out, ip);
return 0;
}
} else {
return -1;
}
}
/*
* Writes interface IPv4 address as network byte order to ip.
* Returns 0 on success.
*/
int get_if_ip4(int fd, const char *ifname, uint32_t *ip) {
int err = -1;
struct ifreq ifr;
memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(struct ifreq));
if (strlen(ifname) > (IFNAMSIZ - 1)) {
err("Too long interface name");
goto out;
}
strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, ifname);
if (ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFADDR, &ifr) == -1) {
perror("SIOCGIFADDR");
goto out;
}
if (int_ip4(&ifr.ifr_addr, ip)) {
goto out;
}
err = 0;
out:
return err;
}
/*
* Sends an ARP who-has request to dst_ip
* on interface ifindex, using source mac src_mac and source ip src_ip.
*/
int send_arp(int fd, int ifindex, const unsigned char *src_mac, uint32_t src_ip, uint32_t dst_ip)
{
int err = -1;
unsigned char buffer[BUF_SIZE];
memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
struct sockaddr_ll socket_address;
socket_address.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
socket_address.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ARP);
socket_address.sll_ifindex = ifindex;
socket_address.sll_hatype = htons(ARPHRD_ETHER);
socket_address.sll_pkttype = (PACKET_BROADCAST);
socket_address.sll_halen = MAC_LENGTH;
socket_address.sll_addr[6] = 0x00;
socket_address.sll_addr[7] = 0x00;
struct ethhdr *send_req = (struct ethhdr *) buffer;
struct arp_header *arp_req = (struct arp_header *) (buffer + ETH2_HEADER_LEN);
int index;
ssize_t ret, length = 0;
//Broadcast
memset(send_req->h_dest, 0xff, MAC_LENGTH);
//Target MAC zero
memset(arp_req->target_mac, 0x00, MAC_LENGTH);
//Set source mac to our MAC address
memcpy(send_req->h_source, src_mac, MAC_LENGTH);
memcpy(arp_req->sender_mac, src_mac, MAC_LENGTH);
memcpy(socket_address.sll_addr, src_mac, MAC_LENGTH);
/* Setting protocol of the packet */
send_req->h_proto = htons(ETH_P_ARP);
/* Creating ARP request */
arp_req->hardware_type = htons(HW_TYPE);
arp_req->protocol_type = htons(ETH_P_IP);
arp_req->hardware_len = MAC_LENGTH;
arp_req->protocol_len = IPV4_LENGTH;
arp_req->opcode = htons(ARP_REQUEST);
debug("Copy IP address to arp_req");
memcpy(arp_req->sender_ip, &src_ip, sizeof(uint32_t));
memcpy(arp_req->target_ip, &dst_ip, sizeof(uint32_t));
ret = sendto(fd, buffer, 42, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &socket_address, sizeof(socket_address));
if (ret == -1) {
perror("sendto():");
goto out;
}
err = 0;
out:
return err;
}
/*
* Gets interface information by name:
* IPv4
* MAC
* ifindex
*/
int get_if_info(const char *ifname, uint32_t *ip, char *mac, int *ifindex)
{
debug("get_if_info for %s", ifname);
int err = -1;
struct ifreq ifr;
int sd = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ARP));
if (sd <= 0) {
perror("socket()");
goto out;
}
if (strlen(ifname) > (IFNAMSIZ - 1)) {
printf("Too long interface name, MAX=%i\n", IFNAMSIZ - 1);
goto out;
}
strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, ifname);
//Get interface index using name
if (ioctl(sd, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr) == -1) {
perror("SIOCGIFINDEX");
goto out;
}
*ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
printf("interface index is %d\n", *ifindex);
//Get MAC address of the interface
if (ioctl(sd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr) == -1) {
perror("SIOCGIFINDEX");
goto out;
}
//Copy mac address to output
memcpy(mac, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, MAC_LENGTH);
if (get_if_ip4(sd, ifname, ip)) {
goto out;
}
debug("get_if_info OK");
err = 0;
out:
if (sd > 0) {
debug("Clean up temporary socket");
close(sd);
}
return err;
}
/*
* Creates a raw socket that listens for ARP traffic on specific ifindex.
* Writes out the socket's FD.
* Return 0 on success.
*/
int bind_arp(int ifindex, int *fd)
{
debug("bind_arp: ifindex=%i", ifindex);
int ret = -1;
// Submit request for a raw socket descriptor.
*fd = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ARP));
if (*fd < 1) {
perror("socket()");
goto out;
}
debug("Binding to ifindex %i", ifindex);
struct sockaddr_ll sll;
memset(&sll, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_ll));
sll.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
sll.sll_ifindex = ifindex;
if (bind(*fd, (struct sockaddr*) &sll, sizeof(struct sockaddr_ll)) < 0) {
perror("bind");
goto out;
}
ret = 0;
out:
if (ret && *fd > 0) {
debug("Cleanup socket");
close(*fd);
}
return ret;
}
/*
* Reads a single ARP reply from fd.
* Return 0 on success.
*/
int read_arp(int fd)
{
debug("read_arp");
int ret = -1;
unsigned char buffer[BUF_SIZE];
ssize_t length = recvfrom(fd, buffer, BUF_SIZE, 0, NULL, NULL);
int index;
if (length == -1) {
perror("recvfrom()");
goto out;
}
struct ethhdr *rcv_resp = (struct ethhdr *) buffer;
struct arp_header *arp_resp = (struct arp_header *) (buffer + ETH2_HEADER_LEN);
if (ntohs(rcv_resp->h_proto) != PROTO_ARP) {
debug("Not an ARP packet");
goto out;
}
if (ntohs(arp_resp->opcode) != ARP_REPLY) {
debug("Not an ARP reply");
goto out;
}
debug("received ARP len=%ld", length);
struct in_addr sender_a;
memset(&sender_a, 0, sizeof(struct in_addr));
memcpy(&sender_a.s_addr, arp_resp->sender_ip, sizeof(uint32_t));
debug("Sender IP: %s", inet_ntoa(sender_a));
debug("Sender MAC: %02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X",
arp_resp->sender_mac[0],
arp_resp->sender_mac[1],
arp_resp->sender_mac[2],
arp_resp->sender_mac[3],
arp_resp->sender_mac[4],
arp_resp->sender_mac[5]);
ret = 0;
out:
return ret;
}
/*
*
* Sample code that sends an ARP who-has request on
* interface <ifname> to IPv4 address <ip>.
* Returns 0 on success.
*/
int test_arping(const char *ifname, const char *ip) {
int ret = -1;
uint32_t dst = inet_addr(ip);
if (dst == 0 || dst == 0xffffffff) {
printf("Invalid source IP\n");
return 1;
}
int src;
int ifindex;
char mac[MAC_LENGTH];
if (get_if_info(ifname, &src, mac, &ifindex)) {
err("get_if_info failed, interface %s not found or no IP set?", ifname);
goto out;
}
int arp_fd;
if (bind_arp(ifindex, &arp_fd)) {
err("Failed to bind_arp()");
goto out;
}
if (send_arp(arp_fd, ifindex, mac, src, dst)) {
err("Failed to send_arp");
goto out;
}
while(1) {
int r = read_arp(arp_fd);
if (r == 0) {
info("Got reply, break out");
break;
}
}
ret = 0;
out:
if (arp_fd) {
close(arp_fd);
arp_fd = 0;
}
return ret;
}
int main(int argc, const char **argv) {
int ret = -1;
if (argc != 3) {
printf("Usage: %s <INTERFACE> <DEST_IP>\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}
const char *ifname = argv[1];
const char *ip = argv[2];
return test_arping(ifname, ip);
}