A multi-platform C++ library for capturing, parsing, and crafting of network packets. It is designed to be efficient, powerful, and easy to use. PcapPlusPlus enables capturing and sending network packets through easy-to-use C++ wrappers for the most popular packet processing engines such as libpcap, WinPcap, NPcap, DPDK and PF_RING. PcapPlusPlus enables decoding and forging capabilities for a large variety of network protocols. PcapPlusPlus is designed to be efficient and lightweight. It enables amazingly fast packet processing with minimum overhead. PcapPlusPlus is fully supported on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and FreeBSD. You can download pre-built binaries for each platform or build it from source. PcapPlusPlus is available in popular package managers such as Homebrew and Conan. PcapPlusPlus provides an easy-to-use interface for reading and writing network packets into files.It supports the most popular file formats which are PCAP and PCAPNG.
Features
- Read and write packets to files
- PcapPlusPlus contains unique implementation of packet reassembly techniques
- PcapPlusPlus is fully supported on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and FreeBSD
- PcapPlusPlus is designed to be efficient and lightweight
- PcapPlusPlus enables decoding and forging capabilities for a large variety of network protocols
- PcapPlusPlus enables capturing and sending network packets through easy-to-use C++ wrappers for the most popular packet processing engines