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Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets

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Date 2013-01-22 13:36 -0800
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Subject Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets
From Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com>
Message-ID <mailman.840.1358891237.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Actually, I used to teach C, so yeah, I know it pretty well. :-)

Scapy is a possibility, I just need to add it to my environment (which doesn't have a C compiler). I can jury rig something though.

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:19:14 PM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > In fact, I have used scapy in the past, but I am working in a restricted environment and don't have this package available. It provides tones more than I really need anyway, and I figured a simple raw socket send/receive can't be *that* hard. I may have to reverse engineer some C code, such as dhclient...
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> Yeah, I think you're working with something fairly esoteric there -
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> bypassing the lower tiers of support (routing etc). Chances are you
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> won't find any good Python examples, and C's all you'll have. Are you
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> reasonably familiar with C?
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> Point to note: Raw sockets *may* require special privileges. Some
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> systems require that only root employ them, for security's sake.
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> 
> ChrisA

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Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 23:32 -0800
  Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Rob Williscroft <rtw@rtw.me.uk> - 2013-01-21 09:10 +0000
    Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 17:06 -0800
      Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Rob Williscroft <rtw@rtw.me.uk> - 2013-01-22 09:06 +0000
        Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> - 2013-01-22 07:11 -0800
          Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Corey LeBleu <coreylebleu@gmail.com> - 2013-01-22 10:07 -0600
            Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> - 2013-01-22 09:57 -0800
              Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-23 08:19 +1100
                Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> - 2013-01-22 13:36 -0800
                Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> - 2013-01-22 13:36 -0800
            Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Peter Steele <pwsteele@gmail.com> - 2013-01-22 09:57 -0800
          Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets Rob Williscroft <rtw@rtw.me.uk> - 2013-01-22 21:58 +0000
            Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets peter@peaxy.net - 2013-01-22 17:21 -0800

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