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

I have been going through the camel book and cpan and have not found an answer to this question: on a Win32 system can you craft UDP and TCP packets with perl? what i need to do is be able to spoof ip's and change tcp options. this is for a prject i am doing with intrusion detection. any help would be monumentally appreciated. thanks!!

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Re: perl and ip packets
by earthboundmisfit (Chaplain) on Sep 27, 2001 at 20:37 UTC
    Yup. IO::Socket

    Everyone have their CheckPoint installation up to date? ;-)

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      thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question. your help is much appreciated!
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Re: perl and ip packets
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2001 at 01:21 UTC
    but i thought all uses of perl were inherently good ;)
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Re: perl and ip packets
by CubicSpline (Friar) on Sep 27, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
    File this one under the new category,

    Evil Uses For Perl

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