On Jun 15, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Rob Turpin wrote:
Some clarification.
1. WinPcap (Windows), libpcap(Unix) have nothing to do with sending packets.
Perhaps they don't have anything to do with sending packets; nevertheless, WinPcap has, for several releases, had an API that sends packets, and some versions of libpcap such as the OpenBSD one also has such an API - the current CVS version of libpcap has the original WinPcap API (not the buffered-send APIs) and the OpenBSD API.
cap - as in capture.
That was its original purpose, perhaps, but it's expanded over time to offer more functionality useful for various types of applications dealing with raw link-layer packets, such as an API to get lists of network interfaces and those interfaces' addresses (as the way that's done is platform-dependent, just as the way raw packets are captured and transmitted are platform-dependent).
2. Windows does have an API to create and send raw packets.
Raw *link-layer* packets, or just raw IP/ICMP/etc. packets?
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