Sending a simple IP package without MAC

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Sending a simple IP package without MAC

Forum: Help

Creator: Ewgenij Sokolovski

Created: 2010-12-10

Updated: 2013-04-25

Ewgenij Sokolovski - 2010-12-10

Hello. I just installed packETH and I am just wondering whether it is possible to send a simple IP package with it, without entering the MAC adress. So, if I just want to send a package in an IP network - is that possible with packETH? I tried to, but any time I leave out the MAC adress field, packETH refuses to send anything, it wants to have the MAC adress!

BR
Ewgenij

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Miha Jemec - 2010-12-14

hi Ewgenij,

no it is not possible with packETH. Because it uses the raw socket mode the whole packet has to be constructed including the L2 fields (MAC addresses).

Regards, Miha

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