Parsing a pcap file in python -

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i trying parse through pcap file in python. goal able pull out type of tcp or udp file , time start/end. have advice in packages might useful use , documentation them or advice in general on writing it?

i use python-dpkt. here documentation: http://www.commercialventvac.com/dpkt.html

this know how though sorry.

#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7  import dpkt  counter=0 ipcounter=0 tcpcounter=0 udpcounter=0  filename='sampledata.pcap'  ts, pkt in dpkt.pcap.reader(open(filename,'r')):      counter+=1     eth=dpkt.ethernet.ethernet(pkt)      if eth.type!=dpkt.ethernet.eth_type_ip:        continue      ip=eth.data     ipcounter+=1      if ip.p==dpkt.ip.ip_proto_tcp:         tcpcounter+=1      if ip.p==dpkt.ip.ip_proto_udp:        udpcounter+=1  print "total number of packets in pcap file: ", counter print "total number of ip packets: ", ipcounter print "total number of tcp packets: ", tcpcounter print "total number of udp packets: ", udpcounter