libpnet6 Free and open source advanced network library
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Free and open source advanced network library Libpnet6 is a powerful library for writing cross-platform network applications. libpnet6 facilitates the writing of professional quality client/server applications in the TCP, UDP, and UNIX domain protocols, offering full support for the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet protocols. libpnet6 also suppports reading and writing of raw packets on the datalink and advanced networking functionality such as network inteface access and configuration.NOTE: libpnet6 is licensed and distributed under the terms of the BSD License. Here are some key features of "libpnet6": · Protocol independent "standard" sockets API, with full IPv6 support; · Access to IPv4, IPv6, TCP, ICMPv6 socket options; · Broadcasting (with IPv4), and multicasting (both IPv4 and IPv6); · Access to detailed datagram information, such as actual destination address, and the interface a datagram was received on; · Raw socket access, enabling the reading and writing of for example ICMP and IGMP messages as well as direct access to IP datagrams; · IP, IPv6, TCP, ICMP, UDP header manipulation routines; · Datalink access: direct access to raw network packets. Read and write IP and non-IP packets (e.g. ARP and RevARP packets) bypassing the regular protocols stack. What's New in This Release: · Improved multithreaded support.

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