The current implementation of AF_PACKET only uses the
device name and protocol options even when a 5-tuple of
Device, Protocol, Packet Type, Hardware Type, and
Hardware Address are supplied.  I needed
socket.sendto() to support sending to a Hardware
Address, so this patch supports such functionality.

The length check on the hardware address is hard coded
to 8 since that is the value used in the sockaddr_ll
struct.

I'm not that familiar with the Python internals, so
s->errorhandler() may not be the best call to make for
an invalid hardware address length.

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Checked in to CVS HEAD; thanks for the patch!

I think s_errorhandler is only when you're trying to report the error from a 
system call; I changed to raise a ValueError if the hardware address is too 
long.  Please give the CVS version a try and let me know if it works for 
you.

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Yeah, ValueError looks good, and it sends out packets to the
desired address just fine.

Thank You

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Thanks for the confirmation; marking this as closed.