Installer libdnet avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• dnet
• dnet-config

Historique du projet

The original libdnet site is signed by Dug Song and presents the project as a small systems library for C, C++, Python, Perl, and Ruby users across BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, and Tru64. Its SourceForge-era download section listed libdnet 1.11 in January 2005 and CVS as the source-control mechanism.

The GitHub tag history preserves the older imported lineage, including DNET_1_10 in February 2005 and libdnet-1.12 in January 2007, then shows renewed maintenance under the ofalk repository with releases from 2020 onward. The 2023-2024 releases focused on modern build tooling, CMake/autotools cleanup, Python binding rebuilds, CI, and portability fixes.

Historique d'adoption

The official libdnet site listed projects using it such as arpd, firewalk, fragroute, honeyd, Nmap, Scapy, Unicornscan, and other network-testing or packet-manipulation tools. That placement made libdnet part of the classic Unix security-tool stack, often paired conceptually with libpcap for capture and libnet-style packet construction.

Modes d'utilisation

Developers use libdnet when they need portable access to network interfaces, routes, ARP tables, filters, tunnels, or raw Ethernet/IP transmission without writing per-OS code. The package also ships `dnet` and `dnet-config`, making it useful both as a development library and as an installed build dependency for older networking tools.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

libdnet is a package-nerd fossil with real utility: it carries early-2000s network-security tooling assumptions into modern distributions. Packaging it well keeps old but still-useful packet tools buildable, especially where source has moved from SourceForge/CVS through Google Code-era references into maintained GitHub forks.

Chronologie

• 2005: libdnet 1.11 listed on the official site.
• 2005: DNET_1_10 tag imported into the GitHub history.
• 2007: libdnet-1.12 tag published.
• 2020: libdnet-1.14 tag published in the maintained GitHub repository.
• 2023: 1.16.x and 1.17.0 releases modernized build support.
• 2024: 1.18.0 and 1.18.2 releases continued portability and tooling fixes.

Related projects

• The official site names libpcap, WinPcap, pypcap, dpkt, libnet, PktFilter, and TUN/TAP drivers as related work, and lists Nmap, Scapy, honeyd, fragroute, arpd, and Unicornscan among downstream users.

Sources

• https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet
• https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet/releases
• https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet/tags
• https://libdnet.sourceforge.net/