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Listen to network traffic



Hi.

I have an idea I want to ask about.

Let's say we have a network with a couple of computers attached to it. One of the computers is running an application that we want to remotely control from the other computers, but we don't know which computer that we want to control. All we know is that they are on the same network.

My idea is that the application will listen to all data transmitted on the network, maybe only on a specific port. If we want to give the application a command, we will broadcast a packet onto the network with a specific data sequence that the application will recognize. Depending on what message the packet contained, the application will do a specific task.

Do you have any suggestions about how I might do this? Is it possible to use Cocoa and what classes do you think would be in interest?

Marcus



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