Package: libpcap0.8 (0.9.5-1)

System interface for user-level packet capture

libpcap (Packet CAPture) provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc.

Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, and since there are several tools that require this functionality, we've created this system-independent API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for several system-dependent packet capture modules in each application.

Further information is available at <URL: http://www.tcpdump.org/>

Tags: Implemented in: C, Role: Shared Library