Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] packet simulatoin

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:03:34 -0700
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:40:25AM +0200, Felczak Andrzej wrote (in an
    HTML message, which is not easy to read with some of the mail
    readers that people use - try not to send HTML-only mail to the
    Ethereal lists):

> There is one feature which I'm missing with Ethereal and that is the 
> possibility to simulate packets.  The Network Associates Sniffer has
> this feature, you can create your own packet or you can replay captured
> packets.  You can send the packets once, several times or forever and
> you can specify the delay when repeating the "job"

I don't think anybody's written code to do that.

One issue is that, unless you're using:

	1) the current main-branch top-of-tree CVS version of libpcap;

	2) libnet;

	3) libdnet;

there's no code that handles the very different mechanisms on different
OSes for sending packets.