Net::Protocol::Simple - Perl extension for handling simple generic protocol layers within applications

  use Net::Protocol::Simple;
  my $p = Net::Protocol::Simple->new(protocol => 6, layer => 4);

  $p->protocol(); Gives us 'TCP'
  $p->int(); Gives us 6;

  my $p = Net::Protocol::Simple->new(protocol = 'udp', layer => 4);
  $p->protocol(); Gives us 'UDP';
  $p->int(); Gives us 17;

This module is intended to be used in conjunction with Net::Connection::Simple. Some applications such as snort and other IDS's log their alert data as simple connections. This module will allow you to read in their protocol data as an int or a string. The backend stores it as a string (TCP,UDP,ICMP). Natively it will handle these three protocols, but it will scale to any other layer and protocol as a simple handler. Using Net::Connection::Simple, you can use these to populate the multiple layers of the connection.

Net::Packet,Net::Connection,Snort::Rule

Wes Young, <saxguard9-cpan@yahoo.com>

Copyright (C) 2006 by Wes Young

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.