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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pcap - can it be used to send packets
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:31:41 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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In-reply-to: tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com's message of 28 Aug 1996 16:26:04 -0400

[Thomas Evans]

|   looking through the man pages it seems the answer is no, is there a 
|   new/better version that will allow me to send as well as rcv.

The answer is yes. In the BPF release from ee.lbl.gov, in the util
directory, there is a RARP daemon implemented using the PCAP library.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no