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Libnet 1.1 参考(英文) Introduction Libnet [1] is a C portable library for packet creation and injection. It was made available in 1998 in its early version. This was the first time an open source and portable library allowed programmers to build packets, and send them to the wire. This first version have been made by Mike Schiffman and already provides ways to build tons of packets. Unfortunately, the version 1.0 lacks some features, and was even counter-intuitive in some situations: developer still had to manage memory for its packets through malloc()/free(), checksumming was a real pain, packets were built from layer 1 to layer 7, ... So, one day in a not so far away past, Mike decides to change the libnets API and fix lost of the first release problems. Here comes the version 1.1.x, which is the subject of this article. With this new API comes a lot of cool features, making life really easier: always more new protocols are supported. packets are built top-down, i.e. in the way they are built when you do it through any application. you dont have to manage memory: all that is now fully transparent to the user. unless you want to provide your own (and maybe wrong) checksum, all the required computations are made automatically. it is greatly configurable as you can chose to have control on every parameter or, on the contrary, let libnet decides for you. These are only examples, and this article will focus on lots of libnets features. Last but not least, one may wonder when he should use libnet. The answer is easy: as soon as you have an application that built specific packets, libnet is the required library. Of course, you usually do not write applications that only send packets, they also capture some, and compare them, ... That makes other libraries like libpcap [3], libnids [4], or libdnet [5] very complementary: libnet is a building block used to construct bigger things. Building packets made easy Building packets with libnet-1.1.x, there are only