pkts

pkts - an rscap submodule for creating, decoding and modifying packet layers

Rscap is a multi-purpose library for network packet capture/transmission and packet building. Its aims are twofold:

1. To provide Rust-native platform tools for packet capture and transmission (comparable to libpcap, but written from the ground up in Rust)
2. To expose a robust and ergonomic API for building packets and accessing/modifying packet data fields in various network protocols (like scapy, but with strong typing and significantly improved performance)

The pkts submodule focuses solely on (2)--it provides a packet-building API for a wide variety of network protocol layers. This library isn't meant to only cover Physical through Transport layers or stateless protocols--thanks to Sequence and Session types (which defragment/reorder packets and track packet state, respectively), any application-layer protocol can be easily captured and decoded.

Features

• Robust APIs for building/modifying packets: rscap provides simple operations to combine various layers into a single packet, and to index into a different layers of a packet to retrieve or modify fields. Users of scapy may find the API surprisingly familiar, especially for layer composition and indexing operations:

use layers::{ip::Ipv4, tcp::Tcp};

let pkt = Ip::new() / Tcp::new();
pkt[Tcp].set_sport(80);
pkt[Tcp].set_dport(12345);

• Packet defragmentation/reordering: In some protocols, packets may be fragmented (such as IPv4) or arrive out-of-order (TCP, SCTP, etc.). Rscap overcomes both of these issues through Sequence types that transparently handle defragmentation and reordering. Sequence types can even be stacked so that application-layer data can easily be reassembled from captured packets. They even work in no-std environments with or without alloc.
• Stateful packet support: Many network protocols are stateful, and interpreting packets from such protocols can be difficult (if not impossible) to accomplish unless information about the protocol session is stored. Rscap provides Session types that handle these kinds of packets--Sessions ensure that packets are validated based on the current expected state of the protocol. Just like Sequence, Session types are compatible with no-std environments and do not require alloc.

License

The source code of this project is licensed under either the MIT License or the Apache 2.0 License, at your option.