Tested ok against (only x86 architectures supported for now):
FreeBSD 5.3 - Perl 5.8
Linux 2.4 (Red Hat 7.2) - Perl 5.6
Net::Packet version 2.04
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This module is a unified framework to craft, send and receive packets at
layers 2, 3, 4 and 7.
Basically, you forge each layer of a frame (Net::Packet::IPv4 for layer 3,
Net::Packet::TCP for layer 4 ; for example), and pack all of this into a
Net::Packet::Frame object. Then, you can send the frame to the network, and
receive it easily, since the response is automatically searched for and
matched against the request.
If you want some layer 2, 3 or 4 protocol encoding/decoding to be added, just
ask, and give a corresponding .pcap file ;)
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Eventually, you will have to pass -I and -L directives for the compilation to
work. This is done like that:
perl Makefile.PL INC="-I/somewhere/far/pcap/include" \
LIBS="-L/somewhere/far/pcap/lib -lpcap"
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
Perl v5.6.1
Class::Gomor::Hash
IO::Interface
Net::IPv6Addr
Net::Pcap
Socket6
Time::HiRes
C libraries:
libpcap
GETTING HELP
A mailing list is available for all questions concerning Net::Packet, just
send a message to netpacket-users@gomor.org (this is a moderated list).
LIMITATIONS
Does NOT work under Microsoft Windows, nor big endian architecture. In fact,
it does only work with Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD.
If auto* subs do not work, you will need to set $Env->dev, $Env->ip, $Env->mac
manually for each of your Net::Packet programs.
Performances (memory usage, object creation speed) maye be quite limited for
now. I will work on it in the near (or not) future. So this module can only
handle a few thousand packets on a 512MB RAM machine.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
You may distribute this module under the terms of the Artistic license.
See Copying file in the source distribution archive.
Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Patrice <GomoR> Auffret
