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ARP had zero treatment until now - its ethertype just fell through
summarize_packet's "not IPv4/IPv6" branch, on traffic that appears on
essentially every real LAN capture. Scoped to Ethernet/IPv4 addressing
(the case that covers virtually all real ARP traffic), with tcpdump's
own "who-has X tell Y" / "X is-at Y" phrasing rather than inventing
new wording. Live-verified by flushing this machine's real gateway
ARP entry and capturing the resulting request/reply on wlp1s0.
TUI -c/-a were being parsed into RenderOptions but silently did
nothing: run_tui()'s consumer thread had its own loop that never read
them, unlike plain-text mode's render_packet(). Fixed to match, and
caught a real bug while doing it - pushing up to two rows per packet
(summary + reassembly line) against a single pop_front() would let
the row deque grow past its cap under sustained -a activity; needed a
while loop instead. Verified under tmux against the same split-segment
HTTP scenario used to verify -a on the CLI and GUI.
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Decided on the name after weighing alternatives in NAMES.md: packeteer
(packet + -eer, "one who wields packets") fit the project's actual
scope better than the wire/frame pun once it had grown into full
L2-L7 dissection, reassembly, checksums, privilege dropping, and dual
TUI/GUI frontends. No existing packet-capture project uses the name;
the one real-world collision (Packeteer, Inc., a networking company
acquired and folded into Blue Coat/Symantec by 2008) is long defunct.
Mechanical rename throughout: CMake project/target names, the
wireframe:: namespace and include/wireframe/ directory (git mv,
history preserved), every #include path, CLI/GUI help text, and the
project's own working directory. NAMES.md rewritten to record the
decision instead of leaving stale self-referential etymology behind
from the blind rename pass.
Verified after every step: full rebuild (all four targets, no
warnings) and the full test suite (128/128 cases, 366/366 assertions)
both from a fresh reconfigure and again after the directory move.
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Terminal packet capture and analysis tool built to learn the C++
memory model (byte layout, alignment, endianness, std::span over
unowned buffers) via a real capture pipeline.
- Hand-rolled L2-L4 decoders (Ethernet, IPv4, IPv6 with extension
header walking, TCP, UDP) over std::span, no struct-casting
- L7 dissector interface with DNS, HTTP, and TLS SNI implementations
- pcapng read/write for Wireshark-compatible capture files
- Bounded capture queue: drop-on-backpressure for live capture,
blocking push for faithful file replay
- Kernel-level BPF filtering (-f) and a separate display-only search
(-g / interactive) that doesn't touch what's captured
- Replay mode (-r) reads a saved pcapng file back through the same
pipeline as live capture, no root or live device needed
- pcap_stats() surfaces kernel/interface drops invisible to the
capture queue's own counter
- Three frontends sharing one CaptureSession setup path: CLI, TUI
(FTXUI, primary), GUI (Dear ImGui + SDL3, secondary)
- 89 unit tests (doctest) plus 9 libFuzzer harnesses covering every
hand-rolled parser; fuzzing found and fixed a real OOM in the
pcapng reader (unbounded allocation from an untrusted length field)
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