Introduction to libpcap
libpcap provides functions for user-level packet capture, used in low-level network monitoring.
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Download (HTTP): http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.8.3.tar.gz
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Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/libpcap-0.8.3.tar.gz
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Download MD5 sum: 56a9d4615d8354fcfe8cff8c8443c77b
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Download size: 299 KB
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Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
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Estimated build time: 0.05 SBU
Installation of libpcap
Install libpcap by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install
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Note
Some applications, including tcpdump, require --enable-yydebug passed to configure when building libpcap to enable the parser debugging code. tcpdump will fail to build if you don't pass this parameter.
Contents
The libpcap package provides the libpcap library.
Last updated on 2005-02-11 18:16:58 -0700