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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.