gorawsocket

gorawsocket

A cross-platform library for writing packets at the IP layer/layer 3.

Why?

I wanted to use Go to send packets with forged source IP addresses and historically to do this I used the google/gopacket library which necessiated using CGO due to the dependency on the libpcap library.

Also, I wanted the ability to send packets to the local system without relying on the loopback interface- something that is not possible with injecting frames at Layer 2 via libpcap.

Overview

gorawsocket is designed to work well with the google/gopacket/layers library.

Resources

• rawip.txt
• SOCK_RAW Demystified
• Introduction to RAW-sockets
• traceroute source code
• raw sockets in go ip layer