I am trying to write a .pcap file, which is something that can be used in Wireshark. In order to do that, I have a couple of structs with various data types I need to write to a file. (see code)
So, I create the struct instances, fill in the data, use FILE* fp = fopen("test.pcap","w"), and then I'm unsure how to properly write it to the file. I believe I should use memcpy but I'm not sure of the best way to do it. I have mostly resorted to C++ libraries in the past to do this. Any suggestions?
typedef struct pcap_hdr_s {
uint32_t magic_number; /* magic number */
uint16_t version_major; /* major version number */
uint16_t version_minor; /* minor version number */
int32_t thiszone; /* GMT to local correction */
uint32_t sigfigs; /* accuracy of timestamps */
uint32_t snaplen; /* max length of captured packets, in octets */
uint32_t network; /* data link type */
} pcap_hdr_t;
typedef struct pcaprec_hdr_s {
uint32_t ts_sec; /* timestamp seconds */
uint32_t ts_usec; /* timestamp microseconds */
uint32_t incl_len; /* number of octets of packet saved in file */
uint32_t orig_len; /* actual length of packet */
} pcaprec_hdr_t;
typedef struct ethernet_hdr_s {
uint8_t dst[6]; /* destination host address */
uint8_t src[6]; /* source host address */
uint16_t type; /* IP? ARP? RARP? etc */
} ethernet_hdr_t;
typedef struct ip_hdr_s {
uint8_t ip_hl:4, /* both fields are 4 bits */
ip_v:4;
uint8_t ip_tos;
uint16_t ip_len;
uint16_t ip_id;
uint16_t ip_off;
uint8_t ip_ttl;
uint8_t ip_p;
uint16_t ip_sum;
uint32_t ip_src;
uint32_t ip_dst;
}ip_hdr_t;
typedef struct udp_header
{
uint16_t src;
uint16_t dst;
uint16_t length;
uint16_t checksum;
} udp_header_t;
Use fwrite(). You need to check this info but I think .pcap files are written in binary mode.
Example:
pcaprec_hdr_t pcaprec_hdr;
// fill pcaprec_hdr with valid info
FILE* pFile = NULL;
pFile = fopen ("myfile.pcap" , "wb"); // open for writing in binary mode
fwrite (&pcaprec_hdr, 1, sizeof(pcaprec_hdr_t) , pFile);
fclose(pFile);