rips-packets

Overview

Network protocol packet representations. types that encapsulate byte slices (&[u8]) in a zero allocation, zero copy, zero-cost way and provide getter and setter methods for the fields in the corresponding protocols.

Usage

See the examples in examples/.

Credit and comparison

This crate is heavily inspired by the packet module of pnet. Basically this is a rewrite of that part of pnet with the purpose of being more light weight and versatile. The packet code generation in pnet is cool and very useful. But it brings in large and outdated dependencies (syntex), and somewhat limits what a packet can do. In comparison rips-packets aims to have no/very few dependencies at the cost of more manual work to implement each protocol representation. A benefit of the more manual implementations is that it is easy to hand optimize single getters or setters if needed.

License: MIT/Apache-2.0