Install/Run Stuff

Want to see what’s happening on your network right now? Just install chains and run ‘netwatch’.

$ pip install chains
$ netwatch -s
2015-09-07 19:08:34 - UDP IP 192.168.1.9(internal)--> 224.0.0.251(multicast_dns)
2015-09-07 19:08:34 - UDP IP6 fe80::6e40:8ff:fe89:fc08(internal) --> ff02::fb(multicast_dns)
2015-09-07 19:08:34 - UDP IP 192.168.1.14(internal)--> 224.0.0.251(multicast_dns)
2015-09-07 19:08:34 - UDP IP6 fe80::8a0:4946:3c8a:e6a1(internal)--> ff02::fb(multicast_dns)
2015-09-07 19:08:34 - TCP IP 192.168.1.9(internal)--> 49.75.183.151(nxdomain)
2015-09-07 19:08:36 - TCP IP 192.168.1.9(internal)--> 54.164.252.174(compute-1.amazonaws.com)
2015-09-07 19:08:36 - UDP IP 192.168.1.1(internal)--> 192.168.1.9(internal)
2015-09-07 19:08:36 - TCP IP 54.164.252.174(compute-1.amazonaws.com)--> 192.168.1.9(internal)
...

Want to go to coffee shop and see http(s) requests floating about?

$ urlwatch

HTTP_REQUEST
192.168.1.9 --> Host: clc.stackoverflow.com
URI: /j/p.js?d=hireme&ac=891012&tags=python;attributes&lw=5913&bw=1539
Referer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610883/attribute-in-python
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36

HTTP_REQUEST
192.168.1.9 --> Host: ajax.googleapis.com
URI: /ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js
Referer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610883/attribute-in-python
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36

HTTPS_REQUEST
192.168.1.9 --> 199.166.0.200(sc.iasds01.com) tls_records(5)
TLSRecord(length=512, version=769, type=22, data='\x01\x00\x01\xfc\x03\x03K\t\xf8_\x8...
TLSRecord(length=262, version=771, type=22, data='\x10\x00\x01\x02\x01\x00Vfd\x8f8a\x...
TLSRecord(length=1, version=771, type=20, data='\x01')
TLSRecord(length=64, version=771, type=22, data="l\xd0\xce\x96\xf5\x1a\xf8\xcf\xcc\x1...
TLSRecord(length=560, version=771, type=23, data='\x1d\x942K\xfb\x87\x19v\xba\x13\x14...

Documentation

chains.readthedocs.org

About

The Chains project is an exploration of python components that you ‘chain’ together to process streaming network packets. The use of native python generators means the code is extremely lightweight and efficient.

Example

# Create the classes
streamer = packet_streamer.PacketStreamer(iface_name=data_path, max_packets=50)
meta = packet_meta.PacketMeta()
rdns = reverse_dns.ReverseDNS()
printer = packet_printer.PacketPrinter()

# Set up the chain
meta.link(streamer)
rdns.link(meta)
printer.link(rdns)

# Pull the chain
printer.pull()

Timestamp: 2015-05-27 01:17:07.919743
Ethernet Frame: 6c:40:08:89:fc:08 --> 01:00:5e:00:00:fb  (type: 2048)
Packet: IP 192.168.1.9 --> 224.0.0.251 (len:55 ttl:255) -- Frag(df:0 mf:0 offset:0)
Domains: LOCAL --> multicast_dns
Transport: UDP {'dport': 5353, 'sum': 59346, 'sport': 5353, 'data': '...', 'ulen': 35}
Application: None

Timestamp: 2015-05-27 01:17:07.919926
Ethernet Frame: 6c:40:08:89:fc:08 --> 33:33:00:00:00:fb  (type: 34525)
Packet: IP6 fe80::6e40:8ff:fe89:fc08 --> ff02::fb (len:35 ttl:255)
Domains: LOCAL --> multicast_dns
Transport: UDP {'dport': 5353, 'sum': 6703, 'sport': 5353, 'data': '...', 'ulen': 35}
Application: None
...

LICENSE

MIT Licensed