Re: [Ethereal-users] Spoofed packets...

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> It is quite easy to put a packet out with the wrong 
> IP information.  With a bit more access to the Ethernet
> driver, it is quite easy to put an arbitrary hardware
> source address.

...and, on some platforms, the only access you need is that offered by
the same raw packet I/O mechanism that tcpdump and Ethereal and the like
use to capture packets - said mechanism often also supports *sending*
raw packets, and, depending on the hardware and driver, may simply put
the raw link-layer packet on the wire, with the header supplied by the
program, complete with, on LANs, the MAC addresses from that header.

That works on Solaris 2.6, for example.