About:
This is a handy little 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.

Author:
The Tcpdump Group <tcpdump __dash__ workers __at__ tcpdump __dot__ org> [contact developer]

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8.16/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.tcpdump.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.0.0.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.tcpdump.org/libpcap-changes.txt
Bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=53067&atid=469577
Mailing list archive:
http://www.tcpdump.org/#lists

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.0	28-Oct-2008	BSD License (original)

 Comments

[»] pcap implementations?
by Peter Willis - May 26th 2004 10:34:07

I'm working on EtherDump and i'm considering writing a teeny-weeny implementation of the pcap format for my tool. Are there any other small/embedded implementations or really simple examples of how to structure it? I saw the pcap draft doc in CVS so I could always go on that, but an already written example is just so much quicker to follow, and plus if somebody's already got something made I can use I could just use that.

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[»] libpcap active development
by Bert Lindner - Mar 1st 2000 18:52:01

Michael Richardson at tcpdump.org has recently been working on libpcap. And tcpdump, obviously.

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