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`pcap-broker` supports the following features:

* Distributing packet data to one or more PCAP-over-IP listeners
* Distributing packet data to one or more PCAP-over-IP clients
* Execute a command to capture traffic, usually `tcpdump` (expects stdout to be pcap data)
* `pcap-broker` will exit if the capture command exits

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Such a use case, including an example SSH command to bootstrap this, has been documented in the `docker-compose.yml.example` file:

```yaml
version: "3.2"

services:

pcap-broker-remote-host:
image: pcap-broker:latest
container_name: pcap-broker-remote-host
restart: always
volumes:
# mount local user's SSH key into container
# Mount the private key into container that wil be used for SSH
# Ensure that on the `remote-host` the public key is in the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
- ~/.ssh/id_ed25519:/root/.ssh/id_ed25519:ro
ports:
# make the PCAP-over-IP port also available on the host on port 4200
- 4200:4242
environment:
# Command to SSH into remote-host and execute tcpdump and filter out it's own SSH client traffic
PCAP_COMMAND: ssh root@remote-host -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no 'IFACE=$$(ip route show to default | grep -Po1 "dev \K\w+") && BPF=$$(echo $$SSH_CLIENT | awk "{printf \"not (host %s and port %s and %s)\", \$$1, \$$2, \$$3;}") && tcpdump -U --immediate-mode -ni $$IFACE $$BPF -s 65535 -w -'
# Command that will be executed by pcap-broker to read PCAP data.
# Which is to SSH into `remote-host` and run tcpdump on eth0 and write PCAP data to stdout.
# The `not port 22` BPF is necessary to avoid any traffic loops as the PCAP data is transferred over SSH.
PCAP_COMMAND: |-
ssh root@remote-host -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no
tcpdump -U --immediate-mode -ni eth0 -s 65535 -w - not port 22
# Bind on 0.0.0.0 port 4242. From within the same Docker network you can reach it using the `container_name`
# For example in another Docker service you can reach this pcap-broker using `pcap-broker-remote-host:4242`
LISTEN_ADDRESS: "0.0.0.0:4242"
ports:
# This is optional, but makes the PCAP-over-IP port also available locally on the Docker host on port 4200.
# Handy for debugging, for example: `nc -v localhost 4200 | tcpdump -nr -`
- 127.0.0.1:4200:4242
```
## Background
This tool was initially written for Attack & Defend CTF purposes but can be useful in other situations where low latency is preferred, or whenever a no-nonsense PCAP-over-IP server is needed. During the CTF that Fox-IT participated in, `pcap-broker` allowed the Blue Team to capture network data once and disseminate this to other tools that natively support PCAP-over-IP, such as:

* [Arkime](https://arkime.com/)
* [Tulip](https://github.com/OpenAttackDefenseTools/tulip) (after we did some custom patches)
* WireShark's dumpcap and tshark
* [Arkime](https://arkime.com/) ([docs](https://arkime.com/settings#reader-poi))
* [Tulip](https://github.com/OpenAttackDefenseTools/tulip) ([#24](https://github.com/OpenAttackDefenseTools/tulip/pull/24))
* WireShark's [dumpcap](https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/dumpcap.html) and [tshark](https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html) (`-i TCP@<host>:<port>`)
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version: "3.2"

services:

pcap-broker-remote-host:
image: pcap-broker:latest
container_name: pcap-broker-remote-host
restart: always
volumes:
# mount local user's SSH key into container
# Mount the private key into container that wil be used for SSH
# Ensure that on the `remote-host` the public key is in the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
- ~/.ssh/id_ed25519:/root/.ssh/id_ed25519:ro
ports:
# make the PCAP-over-IP port also available on the host on port 4200
- 4200:4242
environment:
# Command to SSH into remote-host and execute tcpdump and filter out it's own SSH client traffic
PCAP_COMMAND: ssh root@remote-host -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no 'IFACE=$$(ip route show to default | grep -Po1 "dev \K\w+") && BPF=$$(echo $$SSH_CLIENT | awk "{printf \"not (host %s and port %s and %s)\", \$$1, \$$2, \$$3;}") && tcpdump -U --immediate-mode -ni $$IFACE $$BPF -s 65535 -w -'
# Command that will be executed by pcap-broker to read PCAP data.
# Which is to SSH into `remote-host` and run tcpdump on eth0 and write PCAP data to stdout.
# The `not port 22` BPF is necessary to avoid any traffic loops as the PCAP data is transferred over SSH.
PCAP_COMMAND: |-
ssh root@remote-host -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no
tcpdump -U --immediate-mode -ni eth0 -s 65535 -w - not port 22

# Bind on 0.0.0.0 port 4242. From within the same Docker network you can reach it using the `container_name`
# For example in another Docker service you can reach this pcap-broker using `pcap-broker-remote-host:4242`
LISTEN_ADDRESS: "0.0.0.0:4242"
ports:
# This is optional, but makes the PCAP-over-IP port also available locally on the Docker host on port 4200.
# Handy for debugging, for example: `nc -v localhost 4200 | tcpdump -nr -`
- 127.0.0.1:4200:4242

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