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diff --git a/libraries/libnet/README b/libraries/libnet/README index 4c05bdc407..01654cca75 100644 --- a/libraries/libnet/README +++ b/libraries/libnet/README @@ -1,25 +1,11 @@ -Libnet is a high-level API (toolkit) allowing the application -programmer to construct and inject network packets. It provides a -portable and simplified interface for low-level network packet shaping, -handling and injection. Libnet hides much of the tedium of packet -creation from the application programmer such as multiplexing, buffer -management, arcane packet header information, byte-ordering, -OS-dependent issues, and much more. Libnet features portable packet -creation interfaces at both the IP-layer and link-layer, as well as a -host of supplementary and complementary functionality. Using libnet, -quick and simple packet assembly applications can be whipped up with -little effort. With a bit more time, more complex programs can be -written (Traceroute and Ping were easily rewritten using libnet and -libpcap). - -Libnet is distrubuted under the BSD license. - -Please note that at the time I wrote this SlackBuild script, libnet's -homepage (http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/) was inaccessible for -some reason, so I pulled the source tarball from a gentoo mirror. -libnet.info reflects this. Check the homepage for a source code mirror -near you rather than use the gentoo tarball as I can't be certain how -often gentoo's mirrors are rearranged. - - -- Alan Hicks - alan@lizella.net +Libnet is a high-level API (toolkit) allowing the application programmer to +construct and inject network packets. It provides a portable and simplified +interface for low-level network packet shaping, handling and injection. Libnet +hides much of the tedium of packet creation from the application programmer +such as multiplexing, buffer management, arcane packet header information, +byte-ordering, OS-dependent issues, and much more. Libnet features portable +packet creation interfaces at both the IP-layer and link-layer, as well as a +host of supplementary and complementary functionality. Using libnet, quick and +simple packet assembly applications can be whipped up with little effort. With +a bit more time, more complex programs can be written (Traceroute and Ping +were easily rewritten using libnet and libpcap). |