Installing arp_bomber


Note that the file INSTALL contains generic build and 
installation instructions; it supplements this file (specifically,
the steps involving 'configure', 'make', and 'make install').

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1. Obtain and install libpcap, the packet capture library.
It is available from http://www.tcpdump.org

For information about which versions of libpcap the
program has been successfully used with (and whether any
versions should be avoided), see the PLATFORMS section below.

If libpcap isn't supported on your platform, you can't
use this product.

Libpcap must be installed to compile the program;
we assume we'll find the libpcap library and header files
in either /usr/local or the other usual places the compiler
and linker will search.  If you've installed it elsewhere,
when you run 'configure' below, remember to specify the
--with-pcap=DIR option.

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2. Obtain and Install libnet, the packet writing library.
It is available from http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet

For information about which versions of libnet the
program has been successfully used with (and whether any
versions should be avoided), see the PLATFORMS section below.

If libnet isn't supported on your platform, you can't
use this product.

Libnet must be installed to compile the the program;
we assume we'll find the libnet library and header files
in either /usr/local or the other usual places the compiler
and linker will search.  If you've installed it elsewhere,
when you run 'configure' below, remember to specify the
--with-libnet=DIR option.  We also assume we can find
the 'libnet-config' executable (installed as part of libnet)
somewhere in your path.

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3. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
`./configure' to configure the package for your system, possibly
specifying options such as --with-libnet=DIR if this is needed to help
it locate this package.

Note that because the present version of this product only runs on 
Solaris 9 SPARC, built with gcc 3.3.6 (it has not been ported to other platforms),
it ignores much of what 'configure' discovers about your platform.

More information about running 'configure' is available in the INSTALL
file.

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4. Type `make' to compile the package.

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5. Type `make install' to install the package.

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6. Permission to open a network interface is normally restricted, as it provides access to
read or write arbitrary packets from/to the network.  You will either need to run
the program as root, or another user who has permission to read and write the network interface.

You might choose to make the executable suid root.  Or you might change the interface
to be owned by a special group (e.g. 'interfaces'), make it r/w by that group, then
make the executable sgid to that group.

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PLATFORMS

* Platforms known to work

The program has been successfully built and used on the following platforms:

        Solaris 9 on SPARC
        gcc 3.3.3
        libpcap 0.9.3
        libnet 1.1.2.1

        Solaris 9 on SPARC
        gcc 3.3.3
        libpcap 0.9.4
        libnet 1.1.2.1

        Solaris 9 on SPARC
        gcc 3.3.6
        libpcap 0.9.5
        libnet 1.1.2.1

        Solaris 9 on SPARC
        gcc 3.3.6
        libpcap 0.9.7
        libnet 1.1.2.1

        Solaris 9 on SPARC
        gcc 3.3.6
        libpcap 0.9.8
        libnet 1.1.2.1


* libnet library

The current version of this product uses the libnet 1.1.x API.  It does
not support the libnet 1.0.x API.  The last version of this program that
supported the libnet 1.0.x API was version 1.0.5.