Dominic Steinitz wrote:

Now that I have the Haskell libpcap binding working, I want to be able to parse the packets that I capture. How feasible would it be to use the modules in House (programatica/hOp/kernel/Net) standalone?

For example, here is a capture of a packet showing the 14-byte ethernet header followed by the IP packet which in this case is an ICMP echo request. I assume I can somehow use Net.Ethernet, Net.IPv4 and Net.ICMP to parse the packet?

Yes, that is possible. I enclose a sample session with ghci. (Sorry about the long lines.) What is missing is perhaps a data type that can hold different types of packets and a parser/prettyprinter for that type. Thomas H ------------------------------------------------------------------------ % ghci -fglasgow-exts -fallow-undecidable-instances ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.4.2, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... done. Prelude> :l Net.Ethernet Net.IPv4 Net.ICMP Compiling Monad.Util ( ./Monad/Util.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.Interface ( ./Net/Interface.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.Concurrent ( ./Net/Concurrent.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Kernel.Bits ( ./Kernel/Bits.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.Utils ( ./Net/Utils.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.Packet ( ./Net/Packet.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.PacketParsing ( ./Net/PacketParsing.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.ICMP ( ./Net/ICMP.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.IPv4 ( ./Net/IPv4.hs, interpreted ) Compiling Net.Ethernet ( ./Net/Ethernet.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: Net.Ethernet, Net.IPv4, Net.ICMP, Net.PacketParsing, Net.Packet, Net.Utils, Kernel.Bits, Net.Concurrent, Net.Interface, Monad.Util. *Net.Ethernet> let p = toInPack (listArray (0,length bytes-1) bytes); bytes = [0,16,220,204,93,240,0,48,5,177,121,178,8,0,69,0,0,84,104,184,0,0,255,1,9,54,192,168,100,55,192,168,100,50,8,0,136,151,164,247,0,0,68,120,161,81,0,0,249,163,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55] Loading package mtl-1.0 ... linking ... done. *Net.Ethernet> doParse p::Maybe (Net.Ethernet.Packet (Net.IPv4.Packet Net.ICMP.Packet)) Just (Packet {dest = 00:10:dc:cc:5d:f0, source = 00:30:05:b1:79:b2, packType = IPv4, content = Packet {version = 4, headerLen = 5, tos = TOS {precedence = Routine, lowDelay = False, highThrough = False, highReal = False}, totalLen = 84, identifier = 26808, flags = Flags {don'tFrag = False, moreFrags = False}, fragOff = 0, timeToLive = 255, protocol = ICMP, headerCheck = 2358, source = 192.168.100.55, dest = 192.168.100.50, options = [], content = EchoRequest (Echo {ident = 42231, seqNum = 0, echoData = array (0,55) [(0,68),(1,120),(2,161),(3,81),(4,0),(5,0),(6,249),(7,163),(8,8),(9,9),(10,10),(11,11),(12,12),(13,13),(14,14),(15,15),(16,16),(17,17),(18,18),(19,19),(20,20),(21,21),(22,22),(23,23),(24,24),(25,25),(26,26),(27,27),(28,28),(29,29),(30,30),(31,31),(32,32),(33,33),(34,34),(35,35),(36,36),(37,37),(38,38),(39,39),(40,40),(41,41),(42,42),(43,43),(44,44),(45,45),(46,46),(47,47),(48,48),(49,49),(50,50),(51,51),(52,52),(53,53),(54,54),(55,55)]})}}) *Net.Ethernet> doParse p::Maybe (Net.Ethernet.Packet InPacket) Just (Packet {dest = 00:10:dc:cc:5d:f0, source = 00:30:05:b1:79:b2, packType = IPv4, content = <<84 bytes>>}) *Net.Ethernet>