Chapter 4. Using Libpcap
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Adding libpcap to your project
- Retrieving network device information
- Capturing packets
- Decoding Ethernet headers
- Decoding IP headers
- Decoding ARP headers
- Decoding TCP headers
- Decoding UDP headers
- Decoding ICMP headers
- Filtering packets
- Saving a capture file
- Creating a simple port scanner using libnet and libpcap together
Introduction
In the previous chapter, we discussed libnet, which is a library for constructing and injecting individual network packets. Being able to create and inject packets into the network is a very powerful feature, but to really make it useful, we need to be able to read the packets that come back. This is where libpcap comes in.
Note
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