Just pondering:

Does anybody else see a need for a complete Network Packet library? Tim Potter's Net::Packet was released 25th April, 1999, and hasn't been updated since. Though it was a good start, I think a more robust solution is necessary -- the ability to modify the data returned from the decoding routines and pass them back to (presently non-existant) encoding routines for raw network transmission. . . has anybody else been running into this wall?

From the Perlipq (linux 2.4 userspace packet queuing) README: 
TODO
  A general packet mangling package is needed as a 
companion to this, perhaps NetPacket with encode() 
methods implemented.

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Does anybody know of projects or attempts like this out there anywhere? If I start it up, will anybody else help with some of the more obscure protocols? Won't be hard. .

In reply to Network Packet Encoding? by twerq

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