Just pondering:
Does anybody else see a need for a complete Network Packet library?
Tim Potter's
Net::Packet was released 25th April, 1999, and hasn't been updated since.
Though it was a good start, I think a more robust solution is necessary -- the ability to modify the data returned from the decoding routines and pass them back to (presently non-existant) encoding routines for raw network transmission. . . has anybody else been running into this wall?
From the Perlipq (linux 2.4 userspace packet queuing) README:
TODO
A general packet mangling package is needed as a
companion to this, perhaps NetPacket with encode()
methods implemented.
Does anybody know of projects or attempts like this out there anywhere? If I start it up, will anybody else help with some of the more obscure protocols? Won't be hard. .