pkt-peek
A tiny terminal packet inspector — filter, decode and watch traffic without the weight of full tooling.
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What it's for
I wanted to understand what was actually on the wire without reaching for a heavyweight GUI. pkt-peek is a single binary that captures, filters and pretty-prints packets right in the terminal.
Writing it in Rust forced me to think about zero-copy parsing and clean error handling.
How to use it
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Quick filter
Watch just the traffic you care about with a small filter language.
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Learn the protocols
Decoded headers make TCP/IP feel concrete instead of abstract.