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 2.00
====================

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 subscription request to netpacket-users@gomor.org.

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

