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I like to send packet to a device with only MAC address associated to it and also connecting to my local LAN.
Is there anything in ruby / gem library that I can use to perform such task?
I want to do something like tcpreplay but in ruby instead. Thanks!
MACs are the addresses used on OSI layer 2, the package type you are using on this layer are e.g Ethernet frames. IP Sockets live on layer 3/4, thus if you are using an IP socket, you are sending IP packet.
So if you want to send something “to a MAC address”, you need to send raw Ethernet frames which need to be understood on the other side. Given the really low level of this stuff, this is rarely what you really want to do.
Instead, you should try to get the proper IP addresses of the remote device in your local network (technically the broadcast domain) with either a broadcast/reply mechanism or with multicast (which is used e.g. by Bonjour). That way you can always use the much more supported IP layer. For that, your device needs to have an IP address of course. You can establish those with mechanisms like DHCP or address auto configuration for IPv6.
As for your question, I’m not aware of any library for Ruby to send raw Ethernet frames. But given you would need to invent a new protocol besides IP anyway (which is hard, really hard), sending the package is probably the least of your concerns.