[LiSA-Devel] Libnet package

[Ionut Nicu]

Hi Mihaela,

Why use libnet and not just the standard socket API? Is there a reason
for using libnet instead of just using send()/recv()?

Ionut.

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 00:17 +0300, Mihaela Alexandra Martinas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I started implementing the raw_sockets and I use libnet for sending
> the packets.
> When I integrated the implementation with cdp I faced a problem at
> compile time.
> 
> 
> In file included from /usr/include/libnet.h:83,
>                  from ../switch/raw_socket.h:23,
>                  from cdpd.h:55,
>                  from cdpd.c:20:
> /usr/include/net/if.h:45: error: expected identifier before numeric
> constant
> /usr/include/net/if.h:113: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifmap’
> /usr/include/net/if.h:128: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifreq’
> /usr/include/net/if.h:178: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifconf’
> 
> 
> I didn't include the same headers on both files and from what I read
> from the internet the problem appears because the  version of libnet
> that I installed(which is for centos 6) is incompatible with the one
> used of glibc.
> 
> 
> I tried with this packets:
> - libnet-1.1.2.1-2.2.el6.rf.i686.rpm (this was suggested for centos 6
> and we use centos 6.3)
> 
> - libnet-1.1.5-1.el6.i686.rpm
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Do you have any suggestions? 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Martinas Mihaela-Alexandra
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