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| author | Joe Rozner <livinded@deadbytes.net> | 2011-11-09 13:11:59 -0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2011-11-26 09:09:09 -0600 |
| commit | 0e71d65bba6b6d531bccdfcf2f758c9e4441d612 (patch) | |
| tree | b868ce451f5f0ef4e904327f95e9fb6c3c484ae1 /libraries/libnet/README | |
| parent | 883de473de412d29c0b7b84d1a9ca317c9e80b3c (diff) | |
libraries/libnet: Updated for version 1.1.5.
Signed-off-by: Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/libnet/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/libnet/README | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/libnet/README b/libraries/libnet/README index 01654cca75da..2764a8ad2b15 100644 --- a/libraries/libnet/README +++ b/libraries/libnet/README @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ -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 +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). |