Making Network packets

admiralfreezbee has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to make a data packet to send over a network. All I need is the data the placing in an UDP packet is no problem. The layout of the message is
ID (1 byte) | TransID (3 bytes)
Option_ID (2 bytes) | Option_length (2 bytes)
IP_address (16 bytes)

If anyone is wondering it's a DHCPv6 reply message.
I guess I need to do this with pack but my experience with Perl is very limited. Can anyone help me?

Comment on Making Network packets

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Re: Making Network packets by sgifford (Prior) on Sep 14, 2005 at 17:50 UTC
Net::Libnet is designed for this sort of thing.	[reply]
Re^2: Making Network packets by admiralfreezbee (Acolyte) on Sep 15, 2005 at 09:53 UTC
Thanks for the tip! That helped!	[reply]