net/p5-Net 3.15,1 DragonFly

libnet is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the client side of various protocols used in the internet community.

For details of each protocol please refer to the RFC. RFC's can be found a various places on the WEB, for a starting point look at:

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers\_and\_Internet/Standards/RFCs/

The RFC implemented in this distribution are

Net::FTP        RFC959          File Transfer Protocol
Net::SMTP       RFC821          Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Net::Time       RFC867          Daytime Protocol
Net::Time       RFC868          Time Protocol
Net::NNTP       RFC977          Network News Transfer Protocol
Net::POP3       RFC1939         Post Office Protocol 3