From: Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T11:08:30+09:00
Subject: Re: bit-struct and constructing ARP messages.

Sorry for misreading you post.

I'd like to say that I haven't done such a thing before.
However, I just found that arping[1] uses the libnet[2] library,
which also has Ruby binding[3].
Sorry for telling without doing.

[1]: http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping
[2]: http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/
[3]: http://www.shmoo.com/~bmc/software/ruby/

Regards,


On 7/26/06, Kevin Waters <ooberyoozer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gyoung-Yoon Noh wrote:
> > You can achieve the goal using Array#pack / String#unpack by
> > hand. But there are already good libraries supporting C function
> > calling and type conversion in Ruby: ruby-dl2[1], ruby-dlx[2].
> >
> > [1]:
> > http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ruby-dl2/doc/struct.txt?revision=1.2&root=ruby-dl2&view=markup
> > [2]: http://ruby-dlx.rubyforge.org/
> >
> > HTH,
>
> Array#pack / Array#unpack is useful for packaging the datagram yes, what
> I want to know is what Class#method would I use to transmit an ARP
> message contained in a datagram since it's not going to any TCP port,
> it's just a broadcast arp message.
>
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