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+NetPacket - modules to assemble/disassemble network packets at the protocol
+level.
+
+NetPacket provides a base class for a cluster of modules related to decoding
+and encoding of network protocols. Each NetPacket descendent module knows how
+to encode and decode packets for the network protocol it implements. Consult
+the documentation for the module in question for protocol-specific
+implementation.
+Note that there is no inheritance in the NetPacket:: cluster of modules other
+than each protocol module being a NetPacket. This was seen to be too
+restrictive as imposing inheritance relationships (for example between the IP,
+UDP and TCP protocols) would make things like tunneling or other unusual
+situations difficult.
+
+This is not the same module as perl-Net-Packet!