Re: [Chicken-users] raw packet interface

[Stephen Eilert]

On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:29 PM, Nicolas Pelletier wrote:

> Hello Chickenistas,
> 
> As part of testing a network appliance (router/firewall etc...), I'd
> like to be able to read and write arbitrary data to the network. So
> I'm wondering if somebody has already some tools to interface to
> low-level networking services, such as BPF, libpcap... I am trying to
> find error cases in the handling of incoming packets in the appliance;
> I do not need throughput performance nor very precise timings. I am
> running under FreeBSD 8.1. I'd be grateful for any advice.

I am not aware anyone doing raw packet access in Scheme. 

Do you think that bindings for libpcap would be enough for your purposes?


-- Stephen