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libpcap - Library that provides a packet filtering mechanism

Library which provides a packet filtering mechanism based on the BSD packet filter (BPF). Most notably, tcpdump needs this to work, and there is also a perl module (still in beta) which can use this as well. In plain english, if you want to write your own network traffic analyzer, this is the place to start.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.tcpdump.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.7.2.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.tcpdump.org/release/
Latest versionhttp://www.tcpdump.org/#current
Version 0.7.2 (beta) released on 2003-08-27
Licensed under BSDAdClause.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org> <tcpdump-workers-request@tcpdump.org> Body: subscribe
Developer List<tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org> <tcpdump-workers-request@tcpdump.org> Body: subscribe

Project contacts

Maintainers
  • The Tcpdump Group
Developers
Contributors
  • See the CREDITS file in the distribution for a complete list
Sponsors
  • Information and Computing Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Labora

Related information

Source repository:pserver:tcpdump@cvs.tcpdump.org:/tcpdump/master login password: anoncvs checkout libpcap http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/
Interfaceslibrary
Source languagesC
Related programstcpdump, Ethereal, SNORT, Etherape, Tcpreplay

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-08-27
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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