libpcap-1.3.0.tar.gz

@(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/README,v 1.34 2008-12-14 19:44:14 guy Exp $ (LBL)

LIBPCAP 1.x.y

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Please send inquiries/comments/reports to:
	tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org

Anonymous Git is available via:
	git clone git://bpf.tcpdump.org/libpcap

Version 1.x.y of LIBPCAP can be retrieved with the CVS tag "libpcap_1_{x}rel{y}":
	cvs -d :pserver:tcpdump@cvs.tcpdump.org:/tc
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Under Win32, libpcap is integrated in the WinPcap packet capture system. 
WinPcap provides a framework that allows libpcap to capture the packets 
under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 
and Windows XP.
WinPcap binaries and source code can be found at http://winpcap.polito.it: 
they include also a developer's pack with all the necessary to compile 
libpcap-based appli
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Using BPF:

(1) AIX 4.x's version of BPF is undocumented and somewhat unstandard; the
    current BPF support code includes changes that should work around
    that; it appears to compile and work on at least one AIX 4.3.3
    machine.

    Note that the BPF driver and the "/dev/bpf" devices might not exist
    on your machine; AIX's tcpdump loads the driver and creates the
    devices if they don
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The following instructions apply if you have a Linux or FreeBSD platform and
want libpcap to suppor
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For HP-UX 11i (11.11) and later, there are no known issues with
promiscuous mode under HP-UX.  If yo
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In order for libpcap to be able to capture packets on a Linux system,
the "packet" protocol must be 
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As with other systems using BPF, Mac OS X allows users with read access
to the BPF devices to captur
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The following instructions apply if you have a Linux platform and want
libpcap to support the Septel
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