What is Libnet?

Libnet is a generic networking API that provides access to several protocols. It is not designed as a ‘all in one’ solution to networking. Currently many features that are common in some network protocols are not available with Libnet, such as streaming via TCP/IP. We feel that Libnet should not provide specific features that are possible in other protocols. If we restrict Libnet to the minimal needed to communicate (datagram/packets) then this allows it to support more interfaces.

If libnet fails to install, is because of man_prefix. Libnet install error:

./install-sh doc/libnet.3
install: no destination specified....

To fix this, edit “Makefile” file and fix MAN_PREFIX variable

MAN_PREFIX  =   /usr/share/doc/