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A crate for dissecting and sculpting network packets.
Being able to dissect a stream of bytes from wire into a human or machine readable structures
can be useful in many applications. scalpel
is designed for such use cases. In other
languages such use-cases are served by tools like gopacket or
Wireshark.
Ability to dissect packets and looking at details of each of the protocols carried in the Packet can be quite useful for debugging protocol implementations, network issuess and so on. Also, having such ability in an API friendly way should allow -
- Writing dissector for new protocols.
- Using the dissection functionality in your own application.
Thus, the main focus of scalpel
is to provide API based framework for dissecting packets such
that it’s possible for anyone to write a dissector for a new protocol. scalpel
natively
supports dissection for a set of widely used protocols out of the box. See layers
modules
for supported protocols.
A Basic unit in a scalpel is a Packet
structure that represents a
dissected Packet from the wire. This structure carries information about the dissected
protocols, each of the protocol that is dissected implements a trait called
Layer
. See Packet
for details.
Opt-in Features
python-bindings
: Python bindings for the scalpel Rust API. Currently support is to generatePacket
structure in Python.
Modules
Structs
Packet
is a structure in scalpel
containing the decoded data and some metadata.Statics
Traits
Layer
Trait defines a ‘Layer’ in a Packet