MCP server exposing pcapy-ng packet capture functionality
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"mcpServers": {
"io-github-daedalus-mcp-pcapy-ng": {
"args": [
"mcp-pcapy-ng"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
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MCP server exposing pcapy-ng packet capture functionality.
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MCP server exposing pcapy-ng packet capture functionality.
mcp-name: io.github.daedalus/mcp-pcapy-ng
pip install mcp-pcapy-ng
The MCP server provides tools for network packet capture using pcapy-ng:
from mcp_pcapy_ng import mcp
mcp.run()
Or via command line:
mcp-pcapy-ng
findalldevs - List all available network interfaceslookupdev - Get the default network deviceopen_live - Open a live network interface for packet captureopen_offline - Open a pcap file for readingcreate - Create a packet capture handlecompile - Create a BPF filter programpcap_read - Read packets from a pcap handlepcap_datalink - Get the data link typepcap_setfilter - Attach a BPF filterpcap_getnonblock - Get non-blocking statuspcap_setnonblock - Set non-blocking modeget_dlt_names - Get DLT constant mappingsget_pcap_directions - Get direction constant mappingsget_constants - Get all constantsgit clone https://github.com/daedalus/mcp-pcapy-ng.git
cd mcp-pcapy-ng
pip install -e ".[test]"
# run tests
pytest
# format
ruff format src/ tests/
# lint
ruff check src/ tests/
# type check
mypy src/