Description:

Libnet is a high-level API (toolkit) allowing the application
programmer to construct and inject network packets. It provides a
portable and simplified interface for low-level network packet
shaping, handling and injection. Libnet hides much of the tedium
of packet creation from the application programmer such as
multiplexing, buffer management, arcane packet header information,
byte-ordering, OS-dependent issues, and much more. Libnet features
portable packet creation interfaces at the IP layer and link
layer, as well as a host of supplementary and complementary
functionality. Using libnet, quick and simple packet assembly
applications can be whipped up with little effort. With a bit more
time, more complex programs can be written (Traceroute and ping
were easily rewritten using libnet and libpcap).

This package contains the development library and its header files
for the libnet library.