X-Git-Url: http://g0dil.de/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Examples%2FSniffer%2FMainpage.dox;h=bc69f29591cbc93105ab69dd514df078b8806c13;hb=ff4249b4a9c23236b2e56dcd593c91a5c58f7b75;hp=3e0159dc28cae8906ff3f9e94ccc31d4fb3f9852;hpb=1aa319962e09f32d2dfd612ca1854e8d85e443ba;p=senf.git diff --git a/Examples/Sniffer/Mainpage.dox b/Examples/Sniffer/Mainpage.dox index 3e0159d..bc69f29 100644 --- a/Examples/Sniffer/Mainpage.dox +++ b/Examples/Sniffer/Mainpage.dox @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ tethereal. The application uses a packet socket to read Ethernet packets from the \c eth0 interface and dumps the parsed packets out to the standard output. - To try out the example application, check out the library, go to the \c Sniffer + To try out the example application, check out the library, go to the \c %Sniffer directory and execute
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- We will now look at the code which is found in \c Sniffer.cc in the \c Sniffer directory. The + We will now look at the code which is found in \c Sniffer.cc in the \c %Sniffer directory. The code starts out by including the necessary headers \skip // Custom includes \until #include The example includes two implementations, one using blocking calls and a while loop, the other - using the senf::Scheduler for asynchronous event notification. They are implemented in - \c loop_main() and \c scheduler_main(). They will be documented below. For now, we skip these + using the senf::Scheduler for asynchronous event notification. They are implemented in + \c loop_main() and \c scheduler_main(). They will be documented below. For now, we skip these implementations and go straight to the \c main() function \skip int main( @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ backtrace of the exception origin in the debugger. We now create a packet socket and bind it to the interface given as second command line argument. - A packet socket is a linux specific type of socket which returns ethernet packets directly from + A packet socket is a linux specific type of socket which returns ethernet packets directly from the network wire. By uncommenting the last line, you may switch the interface into promiscuous mode. \until // @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ \until sock.read \doc the following section is obsolete! - + Lets digest this line step by step: We declare a variable named \c packet as a smart pointer to an \c EthernetPacket instance. \c ptr is a typedef member of all Packet classes for the corresponding smart pointer type. We then initialize this pointer with a call to the static \c @@ -132,33 +132,31 @@ \until } - The class constructor binds the socket defined as a data member to the correct interface. - - \until add - - The public \c run() member is called to run the sniffer. It first adds the socket to the - Scheduler. The \c add() call takes two Arguments, the socket to bind to (which can be a lot of - things and must not necessarily be a socket instance) and callback to call, whenever there is an - event on that socket. A third argument may be specified to restrict the events, on which the - function is called, here we have left out this argument which defaults to - senf::Scheduler::EV_ALL. + The class constructor binds the socket defined as a data member to the correct interface. To + tell the scheduler to call us back whenever data is available on the socket, we add a + senf::scheduler::FdEvent isntance to out class. - The callback is specified as a Boost.Function object. We use the \c - senf::membind helper from the Utils library to build such a function object. This helper takes - an arbitrary class member and binds it to a specific instance. + The senf::scheduler::FdEvent constructor takes several arguments: + \li a string describing the event. + \li the callback to call whenever the event occurs. The callback is specified as a Boost.Function object. We use the \c + senf::membind helper from the Utils library to build such a function object. This helper + takes an arbitrary class member and binds it to a specific instance. + \li the handle or file descriptor to monitor. + \li and the events to watch for. \until } - Calling the Schedulers \c process() method will start the event loop. This call does not return - (ok, it does return in special cases if \c senf::Scheduler::terminate() is called which does not - apply here). + The public \c run() member is called to run the sniffer. Here we just forward the call to the + scheduler. Calling the Schedulers \c process() method will start the event loop. This call does + not return (ok, it does return in special cases if \c senf::scheduler::terminate() is called + which does not apply here). \until { The \c dumpPacket() member is called by the scheduler whenever an event on the socket is - encountered. The scheduler always passes two arguments: The socket and an event id which - identifies the type of event which triggered the call. + encountered. The scheduler calls this function with a mask of the events which triggered the + call. \until }; @@ -189,7 +187,7 @@ // c-file-style: "senf" // indent-tabs-mode: nil // ispell-local-dictionary: "american" -// compile-command: "scons -u test" +// compile-command: "scons -u doc" // mode: flyspell // mode: auto-fill // End: