I have written a simple sniffer program to sniff a packet using Net::Pcap and analyse its contents. But when I try to print the binary packet data, it is printing zero. I used unpack, substr, normal printf methods, but no use. But the packet could be written to a pcap file.
Here is my code:

########################code starts#####################
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::Pcap;
use Socket;

my $device = Net::Pcap::lookupdev(\$err);
$ret = Net::Pcap::lookupnet($device, \$network, \$netmask, \$error);
$pcap_1 = Net::Pcap::open_live($device, 2000, 0, 5000, \$open_live_err);

my $dumper = Net::Pcap::dump_open($pcap_1, "capt.pcap");
Net::Pcap::loop($pcap_1, 1, \&process_a_packet, "");
Net::Pcap::dump_close($dumper);
Net::Pcap::close($pcap_1);

sub process_a_packet
{
my ($user_data, $header_ref, $packet) = @_;
print "length of packet =", length($packet), " bytes\n";
$c = substr($packet,1,3);
printf("%b's length = %s \n",$c,length($c));
printf("packet in hex= %b \n", $packet);

Net::Pcap::dump($dumper, $header_ref, $packet);
}
#########################end of code######################

OUTPUT:
length of packet =60 bytes
0's length = 3
packet in hex= 0

In reply to processing a packet with Net::Pcap by monkey.d

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