dnsjit.output.pcap(3)

💖 dnsjit.output.pcap — output to a PCAP using libpcap 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual (section 3, the library functions girlies 🎀), and it's all about writing your dnsjit.core.object.pcap objects out to a PCAP file. libpcap is doing the heavy lifting here, and honestly? she ate. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

local output = require("dnsjit.output.pcap").new()
output:open("file.pcap")
...
output:close()

look at that. so clean. so demure. 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically this is the output module for writing dnsjit.core.object.pcap objects to a PCAP. That's it, that's the vibe. 🫶

🎀 Functions 🎀

• Pcap.new() — bestie this literally just creates a brand new Pcap output for you. new instance, new me. ✨
• Pcap:log() — hands you back the Log object so you can control the logging for this specific instance or module. you want receipts? here's your receipts. 📝
• Pcap:open(file, linktype, snaplen) — opens up the PCAP file you want to write to, using the linktype and snaplen you pass in. it's built on pcap_dump_open(), so you can pass "-" as the file and it'll open stdout instead — go check that function's own man-page if you want the full tea, iykyk. 👑 returns 0 on success.
• Pcap:close() — closes the PCAP. bye boo 👋
• Pcap:have_errors() — returns true if the underlying FILE* is telling you something went wrong. like a vibe check but for file errors. 😭
• Pcap:receive() — returns the C functions and context you need for receiving objects. the whole toolkit, no cap. 🔥

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• dnsjit.input.pcap(3) — the other half of the story, go read her too 🌈

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👑 AUTHORS and CONTRIBUTORS 👑

Shoutout to the icons who built this: Jerry Lundström (DNS-OARC), Tomáš Křížek (CZ.NIC), and Petr Špaček (ISC). absolute main character energy from all three. ⭐

Maintained by DNS-OARC

https://www.dns-oarc.net/

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💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Got a feature request? Don't be shy, tell them:

https://codeberg.org/DNS-OARC/dnsjit/issues

Questions? Need help? Just wanna chat?

admin@dns-oarc.net

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was dnsjit version 1.5.1, living in the dnsjit.output.pcap(3) era — mwah, go write some pcaps, you're gonna slay 💖✨🌸🦋