Nemesis – A Command Line Network Packet Crafting & Injecting Utility

Comments Off on Nemesis – A Command Line Network Packet Crafting & Injecting Utility

The Nemesis Project is designed to be a command line based, portable human IP stack for UNIX-like and Windows systems. The suite is broken down by protocol, and should allow for useful scripting of injected packets from simple shell scripts.

Nemesis Features

  • ARP/RARP, DNS, ETHERNET, ICMP, IGMP, IP, OSPF, RIP, TCP and UDP protocol support
  • Layer 2 or Layer 3 injection on UNIX-like systems
  • Layer 2 injection (only) on Windows systems
  • Packet payload from file
  • IP and TCP options from file
  • Tested on OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows 2000

Each supported protocol uses its own protocol “injector” which is accompanied by a man page explaining its functionality.

Consult the ChangeLog for release details, and the documentation for each protocol injector for in-depth descriptions of the available functionality.

 

Installation

Nemesis is built around libnet. Windows platform builds require libpcap as well. Nemesis <= 1.4 was built around libnet 1.0 and Nemesis >= 1.5 require libnet 1.1, or later.

On Debian and Ubuntu derived GNU/Linux systems:

sudo apt install libnet1-dev

This installs the libnet headers and library in a standard location which the configure script easily can find. Should your libnet1 installation be in a non-standard location you can provide the paths like this:

configure LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/path/to/header

The GNU Configure & Build system use /usr/local as the default install prefix. Usually this is sufficient, the below example installs to /usr instead:

tar xf nemesis-1.5.tar.xz
cd nemesis-1.5/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make -j5
sudo make install-strip

Installing on Windows

nemesis.exe can be installed anywhere on a Windows system. The caveat is that LibnetNT.dll must exist either in the same directory as nemesis.exe or in any of the directories listed in the %PATH% variable. On Windows 2000 this would be %SystemRoot%\System32

Building from GIT

If you want to contribute, or simply want to try out the latest but still unreleased features, then you need to know a few things about the GNU Configure & Build system:

  • configure.ac and a per-directory Makefile.am are key files
  • configure and Makefile.in are generated from autogen.sh, they are not stored in GIT but automatically generated for the release tarballs
  • Makefile is generated by configure script

To build from GIT you first need to clone the repository and run the autogen.sh script. This requires automake and autoconf to be installed on your system.

git clone https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn.git
cd inadyn/
./autogen.sh
./configure && make

GIT sources are a moving target and are not recommended for production systems, unless you know what you are doing!

Related Articles