Please see the main CONTRIBUTING file, and consider the following notes:
- If you are planning to add a new protocol, please read our developer guide for adding new protocols
- Packetbeat uses Cgo, so in addition to having Go installed you need a C compiler
- Packetbeat depends on libpcap. You need to install libpcap-dev on Debian based systems or libpcap-devel on RedHat based systems. On Windows, you need winpcap.