Re^2: Net::RawIP - invalid checksum ?

Cool. Thanks for the info, i'll look into those. Yeah, what im working on is forwarding/creating syslog messages for a project. I have working code in C and wanted to port it over to perl as well. I started looking at using perl Socket but was sidetracked to Net::RawIP when i read it calculated the checksums for ya. Thou, it's looking like that this is not the case?
- Will

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Re^3: Net::RawIP - invalid checksum ? by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Dec 07, 2013 at 11:42 UTC
If you're looking to send Syslog, you don't need to craft custom UDP packets. You can use IO::Socket to create TCP and UDP packets without worrying about checksum calculation - it's done for you by the OS IP/socket stack. For Syslog specifically, just use Net::Syslog. You don't even need to worry about sockets with that - it's done behind the scenes. If you need to listen to / receive Syslog messages, have a look at Net::Syslogd.	[reply]

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Re^3: Net::RawIP - invalid checksum ?
by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Dec 07, 2013 at 11:42 UTC

If you're looking to send Syslog, you don't need to craft custom UDP packets. You can use IO::Socket to create TCP and UDP packets without worrying about checksum calculation - it's done for you by the OS IP/socket stack.

For Syslog specifically, just use Net::Syslog. You don't even need to worry about sockets with that - it's done behind the scenes.

If you need to listen to / receive Syslog messages, have a look at Net::Syslogd.

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