Sending Ethernet frames

[Julian Elischer]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-03-21 14:05, Patrik Arlos <Patrik.Arlos at bth.se> wrote:
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>>I'm trying to send 'raw' Ethernet frames. I have however not found any
>>examples of how to do this in BSD.
>>
>>Is it possible to open a 'ethernet' socket, similar to a AF_INET?  I
>>need to be able to control the destination address and type/len field
>>in the Ethernet header.
>>
>>In Linux it is possible open a SOCK_RAW and bind it to a particular
>>interface, I've tried to use the sockadd_dl but in this case bind dies
>>with error 22, any way to do this?
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>It may be a good idea to investigate if libnet does your job.
>
>The ports version (net/libnet-devel) is based on libnet-1.1.2.1.  Mike
>Schiffman, who writes libnet may have a newer version on his site:
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>http://www.packetfactory.net/projects/libnet/
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>If you do decide to use libnet, I also have a few local patches that may
>be interesting; mostly updates lto ibnet's build tree that use the
>latest automake and autoconf or changes to libtoolize libnet; these are
>"local hacks" though.
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you can also do it via netgraph(4)

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