Tested ok against (only x86 architectures supported for now): - FreeBSD 6.0 - Perl 5.8.7 - libpcap 0.9.1 - Linux 2.6.x - Perl 5.8.5 - libpcap 0.8.3 (Gentoo) - Cygwin - Windows XP SP2 - Perl 5.8.5 (not all functions were tested) Net::Packet is now part of the following systems/distributions: - NetBSD pkgsrc - FreeBSD ports collection - DragonFly ports collection - Mandrake/Mandriva RPMs - OpenPKG system Net::Packet =========== 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 DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Perl v5.6.1 Class::Gomor Net::IPv6Addr Net::Pcap Socket6 Time::HiRes Bit::Vector Net::Write GETTING HELP A mailing list is available for all questions concerning Net::Packet, just send a message to netpacket-users@gomor.org (this is a moderated list). LIMITATIONS Does NOT work under big endian architecture. 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 LICENSE.Artistic file in the source distribution archive. Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Patrice Auffret