Message received at 224674@bugs.debian.org: Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:13:04 +0100 From: Enrico Zini ... From what I've seen in the libnet mailing list, the current libnet package still has documentation and function export issues: - if that function is only used internally, it should not be exported in the header file - the HTML documentation seems to refer to the old API of libnet - I've later found out that the manpage suggests to create many libnet contexts if one wants to create many packets at a time; although I don't really like that idea, there is a documented way of doing it and many packets can be created without using libnet_pblock_coalesce - In the mailing list, sandr8 suggests to use libnet_adv_cull_packet(), however that function is not documented in the manpage, but only as a short comment in the header file, which doesn't tell how and if the resulting packet should be deallocated - In the mailing list, sandr8 and Mike Schiffman suggest using the context queue interface, for which I haven't found any documented overview on what its concepts are, but only the single functions briefly documented in the header file - Mike Schiffman also talks about initializing libnet with the ADVANCED interface, but again I only found the LIBNET_????_ADV constants briefly documented, with no overview on what the advanced mode is and does ...