PCAP_INJECT
Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (3PCAP)
Updated: 5 March 2022
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NAME
pcap_inject, pcap_sendpacket - transmit a packet
SYNOPSIS
#include <pcap/pcap.h>
int pcap_inject(pcap_t *p, const void *buf, size_t size);
int pcap_sendpacket(pcap_t *p, const u_char *buf, int size);
DESCRIPTION
pcap_inject()
sends a raw packet through the network interface;
buf
points to the data of the packet, including the lin-layer header, and
size
is the number of bytes in the packet.
Note that, even if you successfully open the network interface, you
might not have permission to send packets on it, or it might not support
sending packets; as
pcap_open_live(3PCAP)
doesn't have a flag to indicate whether to open for capturing, sending,
or capturing and sending, you cannot request an open that supports
sending and be notified at open time whether sending will be possible.
Note also that some devices might not support sending packets.
Note that, on some platforms, the lin-layer header of the packet that's
sent might not be the same as the lin-layer header of the packet
supplied to
pcap_inject(),
as the source lin-layer address, if the header contains such an
address, might be changed to be the address assigned to the interface on
which the packet it sent, if the platform doesn't support sending
completely raw and unchanged packets. Even worse, some drivers on some
platforms might change the lin-layer type field to whatever value
libpcap used when attaching to the device, even on platforms that
do
nominally support sending completely raw and unchanged packets.
pcap_sendpacket()
is like
pcap_inject(),
but it returns
0
on success, rather than returning the number of bytes
written.
(pcap_inject()
comes from OpenBSD;
pcap_sendpacket()
comes from WinPcap/Npcap. Both are provided for compatibility.)
RETURN VALUE
pcap_inject()
returns the number of bytes written on success,
PCAP_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVATED
if called on a capture handle that has been created but not activated, and
PCAP_ERROR
on other errors.
pcap_sendpacket()
returns
0
on success,
PCAP_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVATED
if called on a capture handle that has been created but not activated, and
PCAP_ERROR
on other errors.
If
PCAP_ERROR
is returned,
pcap_geterr(3PCAP)
or
pcap_perror(3PCAP)
may be called with
p
as an argument to fetch or display the error text.
SEE ALSO
pcap(3PCAP)
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