Method parse

recipes/Python/576662_icmplib/recipe-576662.py:141–153

Parse ICMP packet and return an instance of Packet

(cls, packet)

        return ~total
        
    def parse(cls, packet):
        """Parse ICMP packet and return an instance of Packet"""
        string_len = len(packet) - 4 # Ignore IP header
        pack_format = "!BBH"
        if string_len:
            pack_format += "%ss" % string_len
        unpacked_packet = struct.unpack(pack_format, packet)
        type, code, checksum = unpacked_packet[:3]
        try:
            data = unpacked_packet[3]
        except IndexError:
            data = None
        return cls((type, code), data)

    parse = classmethod(parse)