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SoV - Starcraft over VPN v2.0

Written by Eric Doughty-Papassideris

http://s-softs.com/SoV.html

Description

SoV allows to connect to a starcraft game over networks that don't route broadcast packets - such as OpenVPN (I hear version 2.0 fixed it though) or Hamachi on Mac OS X.

How it works:

When listing games, starcraft sends a broadcast packet that servers respond to with game details. SoV uses libpcap to see such messages, and injects them over another interface (while correcting the source address, and setting the destination to the ip provided on the command line). The server sees the packet, doesn't care that its not a broadcast, and responds to the client with a normal UDP packet. The client sees the game, and the rest works fine without broadcast. On Windows, the pcap_sendpacket does not add the Ethernet header as it was tiresome to implement an ARP exchange, when INJECT_MODE is not defined, packets are forwarded as normal UDP packets.

How to build:

make for mac ctrl+shift+b for visual studio

Credits

• sniffex.c sample by The Tcpdump Group
• WinPCap team
• B. Borde, lemarsu for their patience in testing this.
• Portions in SoV_Utils.* under the following notices:
  • Copyright (c) 1999 - 2005 NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
  • Copyright (c) 2005 - 2006 CACE Technologies, Davis (California)

License

IDC v2.0 ("I Dont Care")

Disclaimer

Carefull: I don't want to know about what happened (or not) because of this code. You are running it "as-is", and it "is not my problem".