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

I'm on a system that only has perl::core available. I need to send a query to a loopback address on a network node by forcing-feeding the hardware address of the node's physical interface to the socket connection that the script is opening. The outbound packet needs to not perform an ARP request, have the destination hw_address of the physical NIC and the destination IP address of the loopback interface. I'm don't know how to do the destination hw_address binding and how to preempt the ARP request. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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Re: direct network query to specific hw_addr?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 30, 2008 at 21:34 UTC