pcap_inject - transmit a packet
#include <pcap/pcap.h> int pcap_inject(pcap_t *p, const void *buf, size_t size); int pcap_sendpacket(pcap_t *p, const u_char *buf, int size);
PCAP_INJECT(3pcap) PCAP_INJECT(3pcap)
NAME
pcap_inject, pcap_sendpacket - transmit a packet
SYNOPSIS
#include <pcap/pcap.h>
int pcap_inject(pcap_t *p, const void *buf, size_t size);
int pcap_sendpacket(pcap_t *p, const u_char *buf, int size);
DESCRIPTION
pcap_inject() sends a raw packet through the network interface; buf
points to the data of the packet, including the link-layer header, and
size is the number of bytes in the packet.
Note that, even if you successfully open the network interface, you
might not have permission to send packets on it, or it might not sup-
port sending packets; as pcap_open_live(3PCAP) doesn't have a flag to
indicate whether to open for capturing, sending, or capturing and send-
ing, you cannot request an open that supports sending and be notified
at open time whether sending will be possible. Note also that some
devices might not support sending packets.
Note that, on some platforms, the link-layer header of the packet
that's sent might not be the same as the link-layer header of the
packet supplied to pcap_inject(), as the source link-layer address, if
the header contains such an address, might be changed to be the address
assigned to the interface on which the packet it sent, if the platform
doesn't support sending completely raw and unchanged packets. Even
worse, some drivers on some platforms might change the link-layer type
field to whatever value libpcap used when attaching to the device, even
on platforms that do nominally support sending completely raw and
unchanged packets.
pcap_sendpacket() is like pcap_inject(), but it returns 0 on success,
rather than returning the number of bytes written. (pcap_inject()
comes from OpenBSD; pcap_sendpacket() comes from WinPcap. Both are
provided for compatibility.)
RETURN VALUE
pcap_inject() returns the number of bytes written on success and
PCAP_ERROR on failure.
pcap_sendpacket() returns 0 on success and PCAP_ERROR on failure.
If PCAP_ERROR is returned, pcap_geterr(3PCAP) or pcap_perror(3PCAP) may
be called with p as an argument to fetch or display the error text.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------------+
|Availability | system/library/libpcap |
+---------------+------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------------+
SEE ALSO
pcap(3PCAP)
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://www.tcpdump.org/release/libp-
cap-1.9.1.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.tcpdump.org/.
25 July 2018 PCAP_INJECT(3pcap)