boost async_receive_from ip filter

Question

I'm using boost::asio to capture packets on udp port. I'm just new to boost. How can I make async_receive_from copy data to buffer only packets with specified source ip?

Answer 1

Depending on what you mean by capture packets, some code like this would work. This is modified from Boost Asio Async UDP example. socket_ is connected to a local interface at a specified port if you set port to 0 I believe it listens on all the ports.

Once you receive a packet using async_receive_from , it will also return sender_endpoint_ from the decoded datagram(ie where did the packet in question come from.) In your handle_receive_from function just add a conditional statement to check for desired sender_endpoint_ and "copy the data to buffer".

class server
{ 
public: 
    server(boost::asio::io_service& io_service, short port)
    : io_service_(io_service),
    socket_(io_service, udp::endpoint(udp::v4(), port))
    {
        boost::asio::socket_base::receive_buffer_size option(1<<12); <br>
        socket_.set_option(option);
        start_receive(); 
    }

    void handle_receive_from(const boost::system::error_code& error,
        size_t bytes_recvd)
    {
        if (!error && bytes_recvd > 0)
        {
           if(sender_endpoint_ == <desired_IP_here>) 
               messages_.push(data_);
        } 
        start_receive();
    }

private: 
    boost::asio::io_service& io_service_; 
    udp::socket socket_;
    udp::endpoint sender_endpoint_;
    enum { max_length = 256}; 
    boost::array < boost::uint32_t, max_length > data_; 
    std::queue<boost::array<boost::uint32_t, max_length> messages_; 

    void start_receive()
    {
        socket_.async_receive_from(
            boost::asio::buffer(data_, (sizeof(boost::uint32_t)*max_length)),
            sender_endpoint_,
            boost::bind(&server::handle_receive_from, this,
            boost::asio::placeholders::error,
            boost::asio::placeholders::bytes_transferred));

    }
};

Almost forgot - main function!

int main(void) 
{
    boost::asio::io_service io_service;
    int port_rx = 0;


    using namespace std;
    server rx(io_service, port_rx);
    io_service.run();

    return 0;
}

Hope this helps!