Raw sockets

jegnet jegnet at cadvision.com
Thu Dec 20 18:39:56 EST 2001


By raw sockets I presume you mean being able to manipulate
Mac Headers Etc
for making packets there is
http://pylibnet.sourceforge.net/

for sniffing packets there is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pylibpcap/

I was able to get pylibpcap to compile under windows but not
pylib net

Grant Edwards wrote:

> In article <mailman.1008885145.25444.python-list at python.org>, Cliff Wells wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:29:23 GMT
> > grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote:
> >
> >> > I've got the impression that you need the tighter control over
> >> > TCP that raw sockets allows,
> >>
> >> Tighter control than raw sockets? Raw sockets is as low-level
> >> as it gets.  You even have to put the Ethernet addresses in
> >> yourself.
> >
> > He said "that" not "than".  Changes the meaning entirely =)
>
> Duh.  I read it several times and it was different on _my_
> screen.  Honest.
>
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