Capturing Network Traffic with Raw Sockets in Go

Capturing Network Traffic with Raw Sockets in Go The most common library for capturing network traffic in Go is github.com/google/gopacket, which requires libpcap and therefore must be compiled with CGO enabled. To reduce environmental dependencies, we can use raw sockets to capture network traffic and then leverage gopacket's protocol parsing ...

Posted on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:31:02 +0000 by kingnutter