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Raw Packets

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Cameron)
Sat Aug 5 02:27:05 1995

Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 20:09:20 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Andrew Cameron <andrew@andy.alt.za>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199503202155.QAA09971@vger.rutgers.edu>

I would like to know how to send a raw packet onto an ethernet lan  with 
Linux. 

The format I want is 

write_raw(Source_Ether_Addr,Dest_Ether_Address,data,datalen)
and
read_raw(Source_Ether_Addr,Dest_Ether_Address,data,datalen)

I want to be able to communicate between various Systems based only on 
their Ethernet address. The data can be encrypted or unencrypted.

Are there any routines available to do this kind of thing and if so where 
can I find them.

Thanks in anticipation
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