Re: Accessing tcp socket information from within a module

[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:02:07 -0700
Vishwas Raman <vishwas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there some way of accessing the information of all open tcp sockets 
> in the system, other than having to turn one of IPV6 or KHTTPD on?

You don't even need to write your kernel module, there is already
a special netlink socket provided to userspace exactly for this
purpose, to get info on all TCP sockets efficiently.

See net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c
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