Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap pcap_sendpacket support across platforms.

Guy Harris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.libnet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 23, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Mike Schiffman wrote:

> Hi there. Guy Harris CC'd me on the libnet tip so I thought I'd throw 
> my hat into the ring and ask a question: how serious was the 
> discussion around unifying the two libraries? We've talked about it on 
> the libnet list recently (libnet list included on the CC line) and I'm 
> curious what your thoughts are...

My inclination would be to keep them separate - I'd see libpcap 
providing the low-level access to the raw network, and libnet providing 
the higher-level packet constructing (and disassembly?) functions (and 
supplying low-level write access with older versions of libpcap).
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