Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Sending raw packets

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From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 03:01:10 +0100
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:06:12PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> The mechanism for sending raw network packets is platform-dependent,
> just as the mechanism for receiving them is; unfortunately, while
> "libpcap" has an abstraction to hide platform dependencies for the
> latter function, it has no support for the former function - when we
> make "wiretap" capable of reading raw packets, we may want to make it
> capable of sending them as well, so we can provide a
> platform-independent abstraction for both functions.

There is a patch fro libpcap to allow sending frames, too. It works very
well for me, and I suspect it has the same advanges as libcap, thus
beeing platform independent.
If there is interest, I'll dig it up :) 

CU,
    Sec
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