A Datalink-Socket for OSX and Linux

To receive and send ethernet frames using ruby.

• A Socket class

• A Frame class

• A Arp class

Arp

> Arp.methods false
=> [:new_request, :new_reply]

> Arp.new_request :hw_src=> '00:50:56:c0:00:01', 
                 :proto_src=> '192.168.1.10', 
                 :proto_tgt=> '192.168.1.13'
=> ARP, Request who-has 192.168.1.13 tell 192.168.1.10

Frame

> s = Ethernet::Socket.new 'en1'
> data, _ = s.recv
> frame = Ethernet::Frame.new data
> frame.src
 => 00:24:b2:51:a8:8e 
> frame.dst
 => 00:1f:5b:ce:bd:6a 
> frame.ether_type
 => 2048 
> frame.payload.unpack('H*')[0]
 =>  "45200034d5ae400035061ad .... 08195fba"

Receiving

require 'ethernet'
s = Ethernet::Socket.new "en1"
s.open
s.recv

Sending

request = Arp.new_request :hw_src=> '00:50:56:c0:00:01', 
                          :proto_src=> '192.168.1.10', 
                          :proto_tgt=> '192.168.1.13'

# send method checks if the arg passed 'respond_to? :encode'
# and sends its encoded representation when it does.
s.send request

Installation

gem install datalink-socket

License

Copyright © 2011 Jean-Michel Esnault. Released under the same license as Ruby