JAVA(Networking) (Jpcap: Capturing and displaying packet traffic with JpcapCapturePacket and receivePacket)

JPCAP: Jpcap is an open source network packet capture library based on the libpcap and winpcap libraries that you can use with java to capture and display network traffic on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Jpcap capture Ethernet, TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, ARP/RARP, and TCMPv4 packets and analyzes each packets header and data payload. USING JPCAP: There are several dependencies and requirements you will need to meet before being able to use Jpcap in your Java project. To write Java application using Jpcap you will need to: 1. Download and install winpcap: Link=http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.html 2. Download and install Jpcap: Link= http://netresearch.ics.uci.edu.kfhjiii/jpcap/doc/index.html The default install routine for Jpcap may not put things in the right place for you particular development environment. Therefore, after installing Jpcap to extract the files find Jpcap.dll and Jpcap.jar on your system. 3. Copy Jpcap.dll into [JRE directory]\bin or [JRE directory]\lib\ext\x86 4. Copy Jpcap.jar into [JRE directory]\bin or [JRE directory]\lib\ext 5. Copy Jpcap.jar into [JRE directory]\bin or [JRE directory]\jre\lib\ext (Note: if you have the 64bit JDK an JRE and download the 32bit version, you will need copy the files to that Platforms and JDK folder as well)

6. If are using the 64bit JDK and JRE, download and use the 32 bit JDK and JRE. If you using Netbean you can add it as an additional platform and select between 32 and 64 bit version when necessary. 7. If you using Netbean, right-click on project Property and select Libraries. Then select the 32-bit JDK from Java Platform dropdown list. 8. Click the JAR/Folder button under project Properties and Libraries and add the jpacp.jar file in to your project. 9. When running Applications that use Jpcap you need ROOT privileges in Linux and Administrative privileges in Windows. You will get run-time error if you attempt to you Jpcap without the appropriate privileges. If you using Netbean in Window, rt-click and choose Run as Administrator. In linux, you can hit ALT+F2 and type gksudo Netbeans. 10. All done! Now you can start coding project using Jpcap Here are some Jpcap class we will be using: 1. Packet= a Jpcap class that is instantiabed for each packet capture and used to access that packets field information and data. 2. JpcapCaptor= a Jpcap class with many methods for capturing and filtering packets. Here are some method Jpcap functions we will be using: 1. getDeiviceList()= return an array of NetworkInterface objects for each network interface on the specified. 2. openDevice()= opens the specified network interface. Its argument are: 1= network interface to open, 2= max # bytes captured at once, 3= promiscuous node (true or false), 4= time out for capture. 3. setFilter()= set port filter options. Take 2 argument: 1= String of to filter, 2= optimize(true or false).

4. loopPacket()=captures packets for specified # of itearions. Take 2 arguments: 1= # capture (-1=infinite), 2= new instance of a class that implements the PacketReceiver interface. IGNORES timeout and does NOT support non-blocking mode. 5. processPacket()= captures packets for specified # of iterations. Take 2 arguments: 1= #capture(-1=infinite), 2= new instance of a class that implement the PacketReceiver interface. ACCEPT timeout and SUPPORT non-blocking mode(return immediately when theres nothing to capture). 6. getPacket()= capture a single packet. 7. breakLoop()= force loopPacket and processPacket to stop looping and return. 8. setPacketReadTimeout()= set the timeout values. 9. getPacketReadTiomeout()= retrieves the timeout values.