mongoose/examples/mip-pcap/README.md
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#MIP TCP / IP stack over pcap
This example allows to use Mongoose's MIP built-in TCP/IP stack on systems
that support pcap API, i.e. have libpcap library installed. The application
opens an interface and uses `pcap_next_ex()` for reading packets from the
interface, and `pcap_inject()` to write packets to the interface.
NOTE: depending on the libcap implementation, the injected packets may
or may not be looped back to the interface's TCP/IP stack. If they are
not looped back, then it is necessary to create a separate interface that
is bridged to the target interface - see MacOS example below.
## MacOS setup
MacOS has support for `feth` (fake ethernet) interfaces. One can create a pair
of `feth` interfaces and interlink them. Once a `feth` interface is assigned
a peer and an IP address, anything that gets injected to it, appears on a
peer interface and vice versa.
```sh
$ sudo ifconfig feth0 create
$ sudo ifconfig feth1 create
$ sudo ifconfig feth1 peer feth 0 # Link two fake ethernet ifaces together
$ sudo ifconfig feth1 10.10 # Assign 10.0.0.10 to feth1
$ sudo ifconfig feth0 up
$ sudo ifconfig feth1 up
```
Now we have two Ethernet interfaces, `feth0` and `feth1`, interlinked and
active. On your Mac, go to "System Preferences" / Sharing, enable "Internet
Sharing" and choose "Thunderbolt bridge". This enables DHCP on the `bridge0`
interface, which is bridge for all Thunderbolt devices, and adds necessary
routes to the WiFi interface. On my system it gets `192.168.2.1` IP address,
and serves `192.168.2/24` net. We should add one of our fake interfaces to
this bridge:
```sh
$ sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm feth1
```
We cat start an example using the `feth0`:
```sh
$ make -C examples/mip-pcap/ clean all ARGS="-i feth0"
...
2386718 3 mip.c:279:arp_cache_add ARP cache: added 0xc0a80201 @ 36:77:4d:be:e0:80
2386718 2 mip.c:300:onstatechange READY, IP: 192.168.2.17
```
The diagram of the setup is below:
```
┌──────────► 192.168.2.1 bridge0
│ routing DHCP │
│ ┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐
▼ │ │ 192.168.2.17
│ ┌─────────┐ fake ethernet pair ┌─────────┐
192.168.0.10 │ │ feth1 ├────────────┬───────┤ feth0 │
┌─────────┐ │ └─────────┘ │ └────┬────┘
│ en0 │ │ │ │
└────┬────┘ │ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │ │
│ │ │ en1 │ │ en2 │ │ en3 │ │ mip-pcap
│ └────┬────┘ └────┬────┘ └────┬────┘ │
WiFi │ │ │ │ │
└──────┼───────────┼───────────┼──────┘
│ │ │ │
Internets Thunderbolt Ethernet
```