I wasn't sure which forum to post this in and I apologize if this was the wrong one. Anyhow, I was wondering if it's possible to hand make packets if you knew the binary for it. E.g. I assemble a packet for a command to be sent to an ftp server in a binvar and send it out through a socket to said server. Will it be sent by itself or will it simply be shoved into the data portion of an ip packet by the level 2 Internet Protocol? Assume my binvar packet has all the required headers such as Source MAC,destination MAC,checksum,etc... Thanks for any help.