Security with Go

Creating and sending packets

This example does a couple of things. First, it will show you how to use the network device to send raw bytes, so you can use it almost like a serial connection to send data. This is useful for really low-level data transfer, but if you want to interact with an application, you probably want to build a packet that other hardware and software can recognize.

The next thing it does is show you how to create a packet with the Ethernet, IP, and TCP layers. Everything is default and empty, though, so it doesn't really do anything.

Finally, we will create another packet, but we'll actually fill in some MAC addresses for the Ethernet layer, some IP addresses for IPv4, and port numbers for the TCP layer. You should see ...