On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, teespy wrote:

> I think it would be nice to have a port of Mike Shiffman libnet[1]
> to ruby for things like this.

I agree completely, which is why I started one a few months back.  The
original motivation was testing of network hardware (specifically
firewalls).  I'm curious what others would like to use it for.

> I would work on this if I were skilled enough, but I not :) (yet,
> hopefully)

I wasn't either, which is why it took me significant experimentation[0] to
get the first tiny corner of the API (the Libnet address resolution
routines) and even more to come up with an API that I kind of liked.
It'd kind of dropped off in urgency for me, but if others are interested
I've got some spare time I could throw at it currently.  If the Libnet
memory management routines aren't needed the packet builder functions
shouldn't be too hard to wrap.

[0] and dusting off my barely viable C skills.

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