Actually, I used to teach C, so yeah, I know it pretty well. :-) Scapy is a possibility, I just need to add it to my environment (which doesn't have a C compiler). I can jury rig something though.
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:19:14 PM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Peter Steele <pwste...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In fact, I have used scapy in the past, but I am working in a restricted > > environment and don't have this package available. It provides tones more > > than I really need anyway, and I figured a simple raw socket send/receive > > can't be *that* hard. I may have to reverse engineer some C code, such as > > dhclient... > > > > Yeah, I think you're working with something fairly esoteric there - > > bypassing the lower tiers of support (routing etc). Chances are you > > won't find any good Python examples, and C's all you'll have. Are you > > reasonably familiar with C? > > > > Point to note: Raw sockets *may* require special privileges. Some > > systems require that only root employ them, for security's sake. > > > > ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
