Libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.
Libpcap 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 we've developed 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. |
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