pcaprub¶ ↑

This goal of this project is to provide a consistent interface to LBL’s libpcap packet capture library.

Limitations¶ ↑

This does not provide packet processing functionality, it simply provides the interface for capturing packets, and passing yielding those packets.

For packet processing capability look at ruby gems PCAPFU, PCAPLET, etc..

Requirements¶ ↑

MRI POSIX Ruby (Native compilation) [Travis-CI Tested]

~> Ruby 2.4

libpcap - http://www.tcpdump.org

Ruby with DevKit(32bit) on Windows [AppVeyor Tested]

Ruby 1.9.3
~> Ruby 2.x

WinPcap Developer's Pack - http://www.winpcap.org

Installation ¶ ↑

gem install pcaprub

Advanced options in a Windows ENV

gem install pcaprub --no-ri --no-rdoc -- --with-pcap-dir="c:/dev/src/WpdPack"

Usage¶ ↑

require 'rubygems'
require 'pcaprub'

cap = PCAPRUB::Pcap.new

Current Repository for Gemcutter source¶ ↑

The Git Repo on Github @pcaprub is forked from the Metasploit SVN repo

git clone git://github.com/pcaprub/pcaprub.git

Additionals¶ ↑

Notes on 0.11.x series and beyond.¶ ↑

The gem is now a module. The module is autoincluded, but this helps with name collisions and additional growth.

Some of the Error handling and basic intensive code is moving out the C base-extension (ext) and into native Ruby.

The file handling in dumper is now attached to the Capture Class and not the Module as an additional singleton.

capture = PCAPRUB::Pcap.open_live('eth0', SNAPLENGTH, true, 0)
capture.dump_open('./Example.pcap') 
  { ... }
capture.dump_close

Timstamps from the PCAP Header ¶ ↑

Timestamps are now available when yeilding packets instead of strings

capture = PCAPRUB::Pcap.open_live('eth0', SNAPLENGTH, true, 0)
capture.each_packet do |packet|
  puts Time.at(packet.time)
  puts "micro => #{packet.microsec}"
end

Ruby 1.8.7 & WinPcap¶ ↑

On Ruby 1.8 with winpcap, rb_thread_polling pauses for 100 milliseconds between reads. This may mean some packets are missed.

LICENSE¶ ↑

GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

www.tldrlegal.com/l/lgpl2

See LICENCE for details

Notes on other repositories in compliance with LGPL-2.1¶ ↑

All original code maintains its copyright from its original authors and licensing.

On March 2014 this project was migrated to github.com/pcaprub/pcaprub from github.com/shadowbq/pcaprub

The Git Repo on Github @pcaprub is a forked merge from the Metasploit SVN repo

git clone git://github.com/shadowbq/pcaprub.git (moved)

The Metasploit Project also provides a Subversion repository: (0.9-dev)

svn checkout http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk/external/pcaprub/

Packetfu Project also provides a listing (0.9-dev)

http://code.google.com/p/packetfu/source/browse/#svn/trunk/pcaprub_linux

The Marshall Beddoe’s Outdate RubyForge svn version can be obtained from Subversion: (0.7-dev)

svn checkout http://pcaprub.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/
http download Public Rubyforge (0.6)
https://github.com/unmarshal/pcaprub

SourceForge Masaki Fukushima 2000 (0.6) – Object Creation Heavy Implementation (PCAPLET integrated)

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/rubypcap/

Additonal Github Repos

https://github.com/dxoigmn/pcaprub (0.8-dev)
https://github.com/spox /pcaprub-spox  (0.8-dev+)

rapid7/pcaprub