Linux: How to Send Tcp Packet from Specific Port

Linux: how to send TCP packet from specific port?

If you are using raw sockets, then just fill in the correct TCP source port in the packet header.

If, instead, you are using the TCP socket interface (socket(), connect() and friends), then you can set the source port by calling the bind() system call for the client socket - exactly as you would to set the listening port for the server socket.

Is it possible to send TCP packet to a specific port with scapy's send function?

I have an simple idea:

port = random.randint(48620, 49150)

If you want to know what is port, go to:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/definition/port-number

Thanks

Linux tool to send raw data to a TCP server

netcat or telnet, i have used both in the past to test simple text based protocols. netcat is more flexible.

When binding a client TCP socket to a specific local port with Winsock, SO_REUSEADDR does not have any effect

When you create a socket with socket(), it has only a type and a protocol family. The ideal is to bind() it to a local address:port too.

The error you mentioned normally happens when the last connection to the same host:port didn't have a graceful shutdown (FIN/ACK FIN/ACK). In these cases, the socket stays in TIME_WAIT state for a certain period of time (OS dependent, but adjustable).

What happens then is when you try to connect() to the same host and same port, it uses the default socket's name/address/port/etc, but this combination is already in use by your zombie socket. To avoid this, you can change the local address:port used to establish the connection by calling bind() after the socket creation, providing the sockaddr struct filled with your local address and a random port.

int main() {
    int ret, fd;
    struct sockaddr_in sa_dst;
    struct sockaddr_in sa_loc;
    char buffer[1024] = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n";

    fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    // Local
    memset(&sa_loc, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
    sa_loc.sin_family = AF_INET;
    sa_loc.sin_port = htons(LOCAL_RANDOM_PORT);
    sa_loc.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(LOCAL_IP_ADDRESS);

    ret = bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa_loc, sizeof(struct sockaddr));
    assert(ret != -1);

    // Remote
    memset(&sa_dst, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
    sa_dst.sin_family = AF_INET;
    sa_dst.sin_port = htons(80);
    sa_dst.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("64.233.163.104"); // google :)

    ret = connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa_dst, sizeof(struct sockaddr));
    assert(ret != -1);

    send(fd, buffer, strlen(buffer), 0);
    recv(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0);
    printf("%s\r\n", buffer);
}

UPDATE: As using a specific local port is a requirement, consider setting SO_LINGER with l_onoff=1 and l_linger=0 so your socket won't block upon close/closesocket, it will just ignore queued data and (hopefully) close the fd. As a last resort you can adjust the TIME_WAIT delay by changing the value of this registry key (highly discouraged!):

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay

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