Get all the layers in a packet

Question

How can I get a list of all the layers in scapy? Eg: Ether/IP/UDP/DNS or Ether/IP/TCP/HTTP. The only thing I can think of is to do a packet.summary() and parse the output, which seems very crude. I think there should be a method built-in, but cannot find any in the documentation. Any suggestions?

What I am trying to do is to iterate over all the fields of a specific protocol given by a user and display its values.

Update: What I am looking for exactly can be seen in wireshark: Open any capture, select a packet, and in the 'Frame' menu, one can see Protocols in frame: eth:ip:udp:data This is exactly what I am looking for in Scapy. I hope I am clearer now.

Answer 1

Use packet.getLayer(<id>) in a loop. For example:

from scapy.all import Ether

def get_packet_layers(packet):
    counter = 0
    while True:
        layer = packet.getlayer(counter)
        if layer is None:
            break

        yield layer
        counter += 1


packet = 'ffffffffffff00ffd59c64320806000108000604000100ffd59c6432000000000000000000000a000001'.decode('hex')
packet = Ether(_pkt=packet)

for layer in get_packet_layers(packet):
    print (layer.name)

outputs

Ethernet
ARP

Answer 2

Each additional layer is the payload of a packet, so you can iterate

def expand(x):
    yield x
    while x.payload:
        x = x.payload
        yield x

and then

res = list(expand(packet))

I hope that is what you meant.