libnet/libnet v1.2

libnet v1.2

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Release curated by Sam Roberts and Joachim Nilsson.

Changes

• Removed Lua bindings from repo and dist files, now available separately
• Removed generated HTML and Nroff (man pages) documentation files, must be regenerated with Doxygen using make doc
• Add pkg-config support with libnet.pc, replaces libnet-config tool, although it is kept for compatibility for now
• Factorize socket setup code for socket opening to provide output device selection for IPv4
• Make libnet_get_hwaddr() work with 802.1q interfaces in bpf (BSD)
• New API for OSPF HELLO messages, with neighbor

Fixes

• Use getifaddrs() on OpnBSD and Linux
• For samples, netinet/in.h is not on windows
• Fix errors with missing IPPROTO_MH on windows
• Fix build error on Mac OS X
• Fix #34 checksum caculation when IPv6 extension headers being used
• Remove unneeded trailing -Wl from -version-info line
• libnet_build_snmp() fix warning
• Use LIBNET_*RESOLVE const in libnet_name2addr*
• Fix i486 sample synflood6 warning
• Some samples need #include<netinet/in.h> for IPPROTO_* on OpenBSD 5.2
• Fix gcc warnings
• Check for socklen_t. Suggested by g.esp and Stefanos Harhalakis
• libnet: update for obsolete INCLUDE directive
• Fix warning inside comment
• Automatic link options #pragma comment(lib, ...) are only for MSVC
• Fix several warnings for MS C/C++ compiler
• libnet_open_raw4() doesn't return a SOCKET on win32
• Fixes error messages sometimes include newline, sometimes not
• Properly set l->err_buf if libnet_ifaddrlist() fails
• dlpi: Try harder to find the device for the interface
• dlpi: Correctly extract unit number from devices with numbers in their name
• Make interface selection work for interfaces with multiple addresses
• Fix memory leak, device list needs to freed after use
• Fix file descriptor leak in libnet_ifaddrlist()
• Fix libnet_get_hwaddr() for large(!) number of interfaces
• Fix to support musl libc, removes support for GLIBC <2.1
• Fix win32 buffer overrun in libnet_get_ipaddr4()
• Interface selection was ignoring interfaces with IPv6
• Use LIBNET_API on public functions, instead of an export file
• Add Visual Studio 2010 project files, with build instructions
• Define INET6 on IRIX, making libnet compile cleanly
• Check for FreeBSD pre-11 before enabling LIBNET_BSD_BYTE_SWAP
• Use LIBNET_BSDISH_OS and LIBNET_BSD_BYTE_SWAP on Darwin
• Add BSD byteswap for Darwin. Otherwise sendto( returns EINVAL
• netinet/in.h is needed for IPPROTO_ and sockaddr_in