libpcap-0.8.3

Introduction to libpcap

libpcap provides functions for user-level packet capture, used in low-level network monitoring.

Package information

libpcap dependencies

Optional

DAG

Installation of libpcap

Install libpcap by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install
[Note]

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.

Description

libpcap

libpcap is a library used for user-level packet capture.

Last updated on 2005-02-11 18:16:58 -0700