Ruby Pcap

ruby-pcap is a ruby interface for libpcap (Packet Capture library). This library also includes classes to access packet headers.

##Installation

###Requirements:

• ruby-1.8.x or ruby-1.9.2 (or greater)
• libpcap-devel (http://www.tcpdump.org/)

###Compile:

If ruby supports dynamic link of extension module on your OS, following commands will install ruby-pcap.

  gem build pcap.gemspec
  sudo gem install pcap*.gem

Tests:

  ruby test/test_pcap.rb

Usage

See the documentation under the directory 'doc'. Directory 'examples' contains some simple scripts.

Author

• Masaki Fukushima [email protected]

• Modifications by Andrew Hobson [email protected]

• OS X and Ruby 1.9.2 support by Tim Jarratt [email protected]

• Performance Improvements and other great contributes by Ilya Maykov

• IPv6 Support by Matthew Wise [email protected]

ruby-pcap is copyrighted free software by Masaki Fukushima.

You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE). See COPYING file about GPL.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GPL for more details.