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Libnet is a high-level API (toolkit) allowing the application
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programmer to construct and inject network packets. It provides a
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portable and simplified interface for low-level network packet shaping,
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handling and injection. Libnet hides much of the tedium of packet
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creation from the application programmer such as multiplexing, buffer
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management, arcane packet header information, byte-ordering,
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OS-dependent issues, and much more. Libnet features portable packet
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creation interfaces at both the IP-layer and link-layer, as well as a
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host of supplementary and complementary functionality. Using libnet,
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quick and simple packet assembly applications can be whipped up with
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little effort. With a bit more time, more complex programs can be
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written (Traceroute and Ping were easily rewritten using libnet and
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libpcap).
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Libnet is distrubuted under the BSD license.
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Please note that at the time I wrote this SlackBuild script, libnet's
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homepage (http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/) was inaccessible for
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some reason, so I pulled the source tarball from a gentoo mirror.
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libnet.info reflects this. Check the homepage for a source code mirror
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near you rather than use the gentoo tarball as I can't be certain how
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often gentoo's mirrors are rearranged.
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-- Alan Hicks
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alan@lizella.net
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