pcapgo

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Overview

Package pcapgo provides some native PCAP support, not requiring C libpcap to be installed.

Overview

This package contains implementations for native PCAP support. Currently supported are

  • pcap-files read/write: Reader, Writer
  • pcapng-files read/write: NgReader, NgWriter
  • raw socket capture (linux only): EthernetHandle

Basic Usage pcapng

Pcapng files can be read and written. Reading supports both big and little endian files, packet blocks, simple packet blocks, enhanced packets blocks, interface blocks, and interface statistics blocks. All the options also by Wireshark are supported. The default reader options match libpcap behaviour. Have a look at NgReaderOptions for more advanced usage. Both ReadPacketData and ZeroCopyReadPacketData is supported (which means PacketDataSource and ZeroCopyPacketDataSource is supported). 

f, err := os.Open("somefile.pcapng")
if err != nil {
	...
}
defer f.Close()

r, err := NewNgReader(f, DefaultNgReaderOptions)
if err != nil {
	...
}

data, ci, err := r.ReadPacketData()
...

Write supports only little endian, enhanced packets blocks, interface blocks, and interface statistics blocks. The same options as with writing are supported. Interface timestamp resolution is fixed to 10^-9s to match time.Time. Any other values are ignored. Upon creating a writer, a section, and an interface block is automatically written. Additional interfaces can be added at any time. Since the writer uses a bufio.Writer internally, Flush must be called before closing the file! Have a look at NewNgWriterInterface for more advanced usage. 

f, err := os.Create("somefile.pcapng")
if err != nil {
	...
}
defer f.Close()

r, err = NewNgWriter(f, layers.LinkTypeEthernet)
if err != nil {
	...
}
defer r.Flush()

err = r.WritePacket(ci, data)
...
Example (CaptureEthernet) 
package main

import (
	"log"
	"os"

	"github.com/google/gopacket"
	"github.com/google/gopacket/layers"
	"github.com/google/gopacket/pcapgo"
)

func main() {
	f, err := os.Create("/tmp/lo.pcap")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer f.Close()
	pcapw := pcapgo.NewWriter(f)
	if err := pcapw.WriteFileHeader(1600, layers.LinkTypeEthernet); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("WriteFileHeader: %v", err)
	}

	handle, err := pcapgo.NewEthernetHandle("lo")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("OpenEthernet: %v", err)
	}

	pkgsrc := gopacket.NewPacketSource(handle, layers.LayerTypeEthernet)
	for packet := range pkgsrc.Packets() {
		if err := pcapw.WritePacket(packet.Metadata().CaptureInfo, packet.Data()); err != nil {
			log.Fatalf("pcap.WritePacket(): %v", err)
		}
	}
}

Output:

Index

Examples

Constants

View Source 
const NgNoValue64 = math.MaxUint64

NgNoValue64 is a placeholder for an empty numeric 64 bit value.

Variables

View Source 
var DefaultNgInterface = NgInterface{
	Name:                "intf0",
	OS:                  runtime.GOOS,
	SnapLength:          0,
	TimestampResolution: 9,
}

DefaultNgInterface contains default interface options used by NewWriter

View Source 
var DefaultNgReaderOptions = NgReaderOptions{}

DefaultNgReaderOptions provides sane defaults for a pcapng reader.

View Source 
var DefaultNgWriterOptions = NgWriterOptions{
	SectionInfo: NgSectionInfo{
		Hardware:    runtime.GOARCH,
		OS:          runtime.GOOS,
		Application: "gopacket",
	},
}

DefaultNgWriterOptions contain defaults for a pcapng writer used by NewWriter

View Source 
var ErrNgLinkTypeMismatch = errors.New("Link type of current interface is different from first one")

ErrNgLinkTypeMismatch gets returned if the link type of an interface is not the same as the link type from the first interface. This can only happen if ReaderOptions.ErrorOnMismatchingLinkType == true && ReaderOptions.WantMixedLinkType == false

View Source 
var ErrNgVersionMismatch = errors.New("Unknown pcapng Version in Section Header")

ErrNgVersionMismatch gets returned for unknown pcapng section versions. This can only happen if ReaderOptions.SkipUnknownVersion == false

Functions

This section is empty.

Types

type EthernetHandle added in v1.1.16 

type EthernetHandle struct {
	*raw.Conn
}

EthernetHandle wraps a raw.Conn, implementing gopacket.PacketDataSource so that the handle can be used with gopacket.NewPacketSource.

func NewEthernetHandle added in v1.1.16 

func NewEthernetHandle(ifname string) (*EthernetHandle, error)

NewEthernetHandle implements pcap.OpenLive for ethernet interfaces only.

func (*EthernetHandle) ReadPacketData added in v1.1.16 

func (h *EthernetHandle) ReadPacketData() ([]byte, gopacket.CaptureInfo, error)

ReadPacketData implements gopacket.PacketDataSource.

type NgInterface added in v1.1.16 

type NgInterface struct {
	// Name is the name of the interface. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Name string
	// Comment can be an arbitrary comment. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Comment string
	// Description is a description of the interface. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Description string
	// Filter is the filter used during packet capture. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Filter string
	// OS is the operating system this interface was controlled by. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	OS string
	// LinkType is the linktype of the interface.
	LinkType layers.LinkType
	// TimestampResolution is the timestamp resolution of the packets in the pcapng file belonging to this interface.
	TimestampResolution NgResolution
	// TimestampResolution is the timestamp offset in seconds of the packets in the pcapng file belonging to this interface.
	TimestampOffset uint64
	// SnapLength is the maximum packet length captured by this interface. 0 for unlimited
	SnapLength uint32
	// Statistics holds the interface statistics
	Statistics NgInterfaceStatistics
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

NgInterface holds all the information of a pcapng interface.

func (NgInterface) Resolution added in v1.1.16 

func (i NgInterface) Resolution() gopacket.TimestampResolution

Resolution returns the timestamp resolution of acquired timestamps before scaling to NanosecondTimestampResolution.

type NgInterfaceStatistics added in v1.1.16 

type NgInterfaceStatistics struct {
	// LastUpdate is the last time the statistics were updated.
	LastUpdate time.Time
	// StartTime is the time packet capture started on this interface. This value might be zero if this option is missing.
	StartTime time.Time
	// EndTime is the time packet capture ended on this interface This value might be zero if this option is missing.
	EndTime time.Time
	// Comment can be an arbitrary comment. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Comment string
	// PacketsReceived are the number of received packets. This value might be NoValue64 if this option is missing.
	PacketsReceived uint64
	// PacketsReceived are the number of received packets. This value might be NoValue64 if this option is missing.
	PacketsDropped uint64
}

NgInterfaceStatistics hold the statistic for an interface at a single point in time. These values are already supposed to be accumulated. Most pcapng files contain this information at the end of the file/section.

type NgReader added in v1.1.16 

type NgReader struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

NgReader wraps an underlying bufio.NgReader to read packet data in pcapng.

func NewNgReader added in v1.1.16 

func NewNgReader(r io.Reader, options NgReaderOptions) (*NgReader, error)

NewNgReader initializes a new writer, reads the first section header, and if necessary according to the options the first interface.

func (*NgReader) Interface added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) Interface(i int) (NgInterface, error)

Interface returns interface information and statistics of interface with the given id.

func (*NgReader) LinkType added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) LinkType() layers.LinkType

LinkType returns the link type of the first interface, as a layers.LinkType. This is only valid, if WantMixedLinkType is false.

func (*NgReader) NInterfaces added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) NInterfaces() int

NInterfaces returns the current number of interfaces.

func (*NgReader) ReadPacketData added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) ReadPacketData() (data []byte, ci gopacket.CaptureInfo, err error)

ReadPacketData returns the next packet available from this data source. If WantMixedLinkType is true, ci.AncillaryData[0] contains the link type.

func (*NgReader) Resolution added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) Resolution() gopacket.TimestampResolution

Resolution returns the timestamp resolution of acquired timestamps before scaling to NanosecondTimestampResolution.

func (*NgReader) SectionInfo added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) SectionInfo() NgSectionInfo

SectionInfo returns information about the current section.

func (*NgReader) SkipSection added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) SkipSection() error

SkipSection skips the contents of the rest of the current section and reads the next section header.

func (*NgReader) ZeroCopyReadPacketData added in v1.1.16 

func (r *NgReader) ZeroCopyReadPacketData() (data []byte, ci gopacket.CaptureInfo, err error)

ZeroCopyReadPacketData returns the next packet available from this data source. If WantMixedLinkType is true, ci.AncillaryData[0] contains the link type. Warning: Like data, ci.AncillaryData is also reused and overwritten on the next call to ZeroCopyReadPacketData.

It is not true zero copy, as data is still copied from the underlying reader. However, this method avoids allocating heap memory for every packet.

type NgReaderOptions added in v1.1.16 

type NgReaderOptions struct {
	// WantMixedLinkType enables reading a pcapng file containing multiple interfaces with varying link types. If false all link types must match, which is the libpcap behaviour and LinkType returns the link type of the first interface.
	// If true the link type of the packet is also exposed via ci.AncillaryData[0].
	WantMixedLinkType bool
	// ErrorOnMismatchingLinkType enables returning an error if a packet with a link type not matching the first interface is encountered and WantMixedLinkType == false.
	// If false packets those packets are just silently ignored, which is the libpcap behaviour.
	ErrorOnMismatchingLinkType bool
	// SkipUnknownVersion enables automatically skipping sections with an unknown version, which is recommended by the pcapng standard. Otherwise ErrVersionMismatch is returned.
	SkipUnknownVersion bool
	// SectionEndCallback gets called at the end of a section (execept for the last section, which is ends on EOF). The current list of interfaces and additional section information is provided.
	// This is a good way to read interface statistics.
	SectionEndCallback func([]NgInterface, NgSectionInfo)
	// StatisticsCallback is called when a interface statistics block is read. The interface id and the read statistics are provided.
	StatisticsCallback func(int, NgInterfaceStatistics)
}

NgReaderOptions holds options for reading a pcapng file

type NgResolution added in v1.1.16 

type NgResolution uint8

NgResolution represents a pcapng timestamp resolution

func (NgResolution) Binary added in v1.1.16 

func (r NgResolution) Binary() bool

Binary returns true if the timestamp resolution is a negative power of two. Otherwise NgResolution is a negative power of 10.

func (NgResolution) Exponent added in v1.1.16 

func (r NgResolution) Exponent() uint8

Exponent returns the negative exponent of the resolution.

func (NgResolution) ToTimestampResolution added in v1.1.16 

func (r NgResolution) ToTimestampResolution() (ret gopacket.TimestampResolution)

ToTimestampResolution converts an NgResolution to a gopaket.TimestampResolution

type NgSectionInfo added in v1.1.16 

type NgSectionInfo struct {
	// Hardware is the hardware this file was generated on. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Hardware string
	// OS is the operating system this file was generated on. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	OS string
	// Application is the user space application this file was generated with. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Application string
	// Comment can be an arbitrary comment. This value might be empty if this option is missing.
	Comment string
}

NgSectionInfo contains additional information of a pcapng section

type NgWriter added in v1.1.16 

type NgWriter struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

NgWriter holds the internal state of a pcapng file writer. Internally a bufio.NgWriter is used, therefore Flush must be called before closing the underlying file.

func NewNgWriter added in v1.1.16 

func NewNgWriter(w io.Writer, linkType layers.LinkType) (*NgWriter, error)

NewNgWriter initializes and returns a new writer. Additionally, one section and one interface (without statistics) is written to the file. Interface and section options are used from DefaultNgInterface and DefaultNgWriterOptions. Flush must be called before the file is closed, or if eventual unwritten information should be written out to the storage device.

Written files are in little endian format. Interface timestamp resolution is fixed to 9 (to match time.Time).

func NewNgWriterInterface added in v1.1.16 

func NewNgWriterInterface(w io.Writer, intf NgInterface, options NgWriterOptions) (*NgWriter, error)

NewNgWriterInterface initializes and returns a new writer. Additionally, one section and one interface (without statistics) is written to the file. Flush must be called before the file is closed, or if eventual unwritten information should be written out to the storage device.

Written files are in little endian format. Interface timestamp resolution is fixed to 9 (to match time.Time).

func (*NgWriter) AddInterface added in v1.1.16 

func (w *NgWriter) AddInterface(intf NgInterface) (id int, err error)

AddInterface adds the specified interface to the file, excluding statistics. Interface timestamp resolution is fixed to 9 (to match time.Time). Empty values are not written.

func (*NgWriter) Flush added in v1.1.16 

func (w *NgWriter) Flush() error

Flush writes out buffered data to the storage media. Must be called before closing the underlying file.

func (*NgWriter) WriteInterfaceStats added in v1.1.16 

func (w *NgWriter) WriteInterfaceStats(intf int, stats NgInterfaceStatistics) error

WriteInterfaceStats writes the given interface statistics for the given interface id to the file. Empty values are not written.

func (*NgWriter) WritePacket added in v1.1.16 

func (w *NgWriter) WritePacket(ci gopacket.CaptureInfo, data []byte) error

WritePacket writes out packet with the given data and capture info. The given InterfaceIndex must already be added to the file. InterfaceIndex 0 is automatically added by the NewWriter* methods.

type NgWriterOptions added in v1.1.16 

type NgWriterOptions struct {
	// SectionInfo will be written to the section header
	SectionInfo NgSectionInfo
}

NgWriterOptions holds options for creating a pcapng file

type Reader added in v1.1.11 

type Reader struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Reader wraps an underlying io.Reader to read packet data in PCAP format. See http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat for information on the file format.

We currenty read v2.4 file format with nanosecond and microsecdond timestamp resolution in little-endian and big-endian encoding.

If the PCAP data is gzip compressed it is transparently uncompressed by wrapping the given io.Reader with a gzip.Reader.

func NewReader added in v1.1.11 

func NewReader(r io.Reader) (*Reader, error)

NewReader returns a new reader object, for reading packet data from the given reader. The reader must be open and header data is read from it at this point. If the file format is not supported an error is returned 

// Create new reader:
f, _ := os.Open("/tmp/file.pcap")
defer f.Close()
r, err := NewReader(f)
data, ci, err := r.ReadPacketData()

func (*Reader) LinkType added in v1.1.11 

func (r *Reader) LinkType() layers.LinkType

LinkType returns network, as a layers.LinkType.

func (*Reader) ReadPacketData added in v1.1.11 

func (r *Reader) ReadPacketData() (data []byte, ci gopacket.CaptureInfo, err error)

ReadPacketData reads next packet from file.

func (*Reader) Resolution added in v1.1.16 

func (r *Reader) Resolution() gopacket.TimestampResolution

Resolution returns the timestamp resolution of acquired timestamps before scaling to NanosecondTimestampResolution.

func (*Reader) SetSnaplen added in v1.1.16 

func (r *Reader) SetSnaplen(newSnaplen uint32)

SetSnaplen sets the snapshot length of the capture file.

This is useful when a pcap file contains packets bigger than then snaplen. Pcapgo will error when reading packets bigger than snaplen, then it dumps those packets and reads the next 16 bytes, which are part of the "faulty" packet's payload, but pcapgo thinks it's the next header, which is probably also faulty because it's not really a packet header. This can lead to a lot of faulty reads.

The SetSnaplen function can be used to set a bigger snaplen to prevent those read errors.

This snaplen situation can happen when a pcap writer doesn't truncate packets to the snaplen size while writing packets to file. E.g. In Python, dpkt.pcap.Writer sets snaplen by default to 1500 (https://dpkt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/api_auto.html#dpkt.pcap.Writer) but doesn't enforce this when writing packets (https://dpkt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/dpkt/pcap.html#Writer.writepkt). When reading, tools like tcpdump, tcpslice, mergecap and wireshark ignore the snaplen and use their own defined snaplen. E.g. When reading packets, tcpdump defines MAXIMUM_SNAPLEN (https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/6e80fcdbe9c41366df3fa244ffe4ac8cce2ab597/netdissect.h#L290) and uses it (https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/66384fa15b04b47ad08c063d4728df3b9c1c0677/print.c#L343-L358).

For further reading:

func (*Reader) Snaplen added in v1.1.16 

func (r *Reader) Snaplen() uint32

Snaplen returns the snapshot length of the capture file.

func (*Reader) String added in v1.1.11 

func (r *Reader) String() string

Reader formater

func (*Reader) ZeroCopyReadPacketData added in v1.1.16 

func (r *Reader) ZeroCopyReadPacketData() (data []byte, ci gopacket.CaptureInfo, err error)

ZeroCopyReadPacketData reads next packet from file. The data buffer is owned by the Reader, and each call to ZeroCopyReadPacketData invalidates data returned by the previous one.

It is not true zero copy, as data is still copied from the underlying reader. However, this method avoids allocating heap memory for every packet.

type Writer 

type Writer struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Writer wraps an underlying io.Writer to write packet data in PCAP format. See http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat for information on the file format.

For those that care, we currently write v2.4 files with nanosecond timestamp resolution and little-endian encoding.

func NewWriter 

func NewWriter(w io.Writer) *Writer

NewWriter returns a new writer object, for writing packet data out to the given writer. If this is a new empty writer (as opposed to an append), you must call WriteFileHeader before WritePacket. 

// Write a new file:
f, _ := os.Create("/tmp/file.pcap")
w := pcapgo.NewWriter(f)
w.WriteFileHeader(65536, layers.LinkTypeEthernet)  // new file, must do this.
w.WritePacket(gopacket.CaptureInfo{...}, data1)
f.Close()
// Append to existing file (must have same snaplen and linktype)
f2, _ := os.OpenFile("/tmp/file.pcap", os.O_APPEND, 0700)
w2 := pcapgo.NewWriter(f2)
// no need for file header, it's already written.
w2.WritePacket(gopacket.CaptureInfo{...}, data2)
f2.Close()

func (*Writer) WriteFileHeader 

func (w *Writer) WriteFileHeader(snaplen uint32, linktype layers.LinkType) error

WriteFileHeader writes a file header out to the writer. This must be called exactly once per output.

func (*Writer) WritePacket 

func (w *Writer) WritePacket(ci gopacket.CaptureInfo, data []byte) error

WritePacket writes the given packet data out to the file.

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