Net::libdnet is a perl module that provides a simple and portable interface to many useful low-level networking routines. its functionality includes network address manipulation, kernel arp cache and route table manipulation, firewalling, network interface manipulation, network traffic interception via tunnel interfaces, and raw ip packet/ethernet frame transmission.

this module is intended to complement functionality provided by libpcap. for historical reasons, dug song's libdnet is called libdumbnet on debian.