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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 both 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).
+
+Libnet is distrubuted under the BSD license.
+
+Please note that at the time I wrote this SlackBuild script, libnet's
+homepage (http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/) was inaccessible for
+some reason, so I pulled the source tarball from a gentoo mirror.
+libnet.info reflects this. Check the homepage for a source code mirror
+near you rather than use the gentoo tarball as I can't be certain how
+often gentoo's mirrors are rearranged.
+
+  -- Alan Hicks
+     alan@lizella.net