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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>netmon@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo network monitoring and analysis project</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
	Libnet is a high-level API (toolkit) allowing the application
	programmer to construct and inject network packets. It provides a
	portable and simplified interface for low-level network packet
	shaping, handling and injection. Libnet hides much of the tedium
	of packet creation from the application programmer such as
	multiplexing, buffer management, arcane packet header
	information, byte-ordering, OS-dependent issues, and much more.
	Libnet features portable packet creation interfaces at the IP
	layer and link layer, as well as a host of supplementary and
	complementary functionality. Using libnet, quick and simple
	packet assembly applications can be whipped up with little
	effort. With a bit more time, more complex programs can be
	written (Traceroute and ping were easily rewritten using libnet
	and libpcap).
	</longdescription>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="sourceforge">libnet-dev</remote-id>
		<remote-id type="github">libnet/libnet</remote-id>
		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:libnet_project:libnet</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>