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diff --git a/libraries/libnet/README b/libraries/libnet/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4c05bdc407 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libnet/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +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 |