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From: James Stevenson <james@stev.org>
Subject: Re: generating ethernet packets
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:58:32 +0000 (GMT)
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To: Massimiliano Cialdi <cialdi@firenze.net>
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> > If u want to do it on your own u can use raw sockets.
> How can I generate an ethernet frame (with custom payload) with raw sockets?


Open a raw socket using the socket function.
Then use write to put the packet on the wire.

iirc there are 100's of example on doing this

	James