NAME

Net::Packet - a framework to easily send and receive frames from layer 2 to layer 7

CLASS HIERARCHY

Net::Packet

Net::Packet::Env

Net::Packet::Dump

Net::Packet::Utils

Net::Packet::Desc
   |
   +---Net::Packet::DescL2
   |
   +---Net::Packet::DescL3
   |
   +---Net::Packet::DescL4

Net::Packet::Frame

Net::Packet::Layer
   |
   +---Net::Packet::Layer2
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::ETH
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::NULL
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::RAW
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::SLL
   |
   +---Net::Packet::Layer3
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::ARP
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::IPv4
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::IPv6
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::VLAN
   |
   +---Net::Packet::Layer4
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::TCP
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::UDP
   |      |
   |      +---Net::Packet::ICMPv4
   |
   +---Net::Packet::Layer7

SYNOPSIS

# Load all modules, it also initializes a Net::Packet::Env object, 
# and imports all utility subs and constances in current namespace
use Net::Packet;

# Build IPv4 header
my $ip = Net::Packet::IPv4->new(dst => '192.168.0.1');

# Build TCP header
my $tcp = Net::Packet::TCP->new(dst => 22);

# Assemble frame
# It will also open a Net::Packet::DescL3 descriptor
# and a Net::Packet::Dump object
my $frame = Net::Packet::Frame->new(l3 => $ip, l4 => $tcp);

$frame->send;

# Print the reply just when it has been received
until ($Env->dump->timeout) {
   if ($frame->recv) {
      print $frame->reply->l3, "\n";
      print $frame->reply->l4, "\n";
      last;
   }
}

DESCRIPTION

This module is a unified framework to craft, send and receive packets at layers 2, 3, 4 and 7.

Basically, you forge each layer of a frame (Net::Packet::IPv4 for layer 3, Net::Packet::TCP for layer 4 ; for example), and pack all of this into a Net::Packet::Frame object. Then, you can send the frame to the network, and receive it easily, since the response is automatically searched for and matched against the request.

If you want some layer 2, 3 or 4 protocol encoding/decoding to be added, just ask, and give a corresponding .pcap file ;)

You should study various pod found in all classes, example files found in examples directory that come with this tarball, and also tests in t directory.

AUTHOR

Patrice <GomoR> Auffret

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Patrice <GomoR> Auffret

You may distribute this module under the terms of the Artistic license. See LICENSE.Artistic file in the source distribution archive.

RELATED MODULES

NetPacket, Net::RawIP, Net::RawSock