lneto

Userspace networking primitives.

lneto is pronounced "L-net-oh", a.k.a. "El Neto"; a.k.a. "Don Networkio"; a.k.a "Neto, connector of worlds".

Packages

• lneto: Low-level Networking Operations, or "El Neto", the networking package. Zero copy network frame marshalling and unmarshalling.
  • lneto/frames.go: Ethernet, IPv4/IPv6, ARP, TCP, UDP packet marshalling/unmarshalling.
• lneto/http/httpraw: Heapless HTTP header processing and validation. Does no implement header normalization.
• lneto/tcp: TCP implementation and low level logic.
• lneto/dhcpv4: DHCP version 4 protocol implementation and low level logic.
• lneto/dns: DNS protocol implementation and low level logic.
• lneto/ntp: NTP implementation and low level logic. Includes NTP time primitives manipulation and conversion to Go native types.
• lneto/internal: Lightweight and flexible ring buffer implementation and debugging primitives.

Install

How to install package with newer versions of Go (+1.16):

go mod download github.com/soypat/lneto@latest

Developing (linux)

• tap (linux only, root privilidges required) Program opens a TAP interface and assigns an IP address to it and exposes the interface via a HTTP interface. This program is run with root privilidges to facilitate debugging of lneto since no root privilidges are required to interact with the HTTP interface exposed.

  • POST http://127.0.0.1:7070/send: Receives a POST with request body containing JSON string of data to send over TAP interface. Response contains only status code.
  • GET http://127.0.0.1:7070/recv: Receives a GET request. Response contains a JSON string of oldest unread TAP interface packet. If string is empty then there is no more data to read.

• stack Contains stack implementation which can interact with tap program. No root privilidges required.

  • Can expose a HTTP server.

To run the HTTP TAP server run the following commands. Requires elevated privilidges!

# Build+Run HTTP Tap server from one shell, this will expose the `tap0` TAP interface over an HTTP interface at http://127.0.0.1:7070 on /recv and /send endpoints.
go build ./examples/tap && sudo ./tap

Now run the application you wish to test without elevated privilidges. Stackbasic shows a basic HTTP demo in action.

go run ./examples/stackbasic

Wireshark: Using the provided method of interfacing mean's you'll always be able to easily reach the TAP interface on your machine over HTTP from any process, be it Python or Go. To visualize the packets over the interface we suggest using wireshark and selecting the tap0 interface which will show all activity over the HTTP TAP interface created with ./examples/tap.