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1 Libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.
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2 Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring.
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3 Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring,
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4 network debugging, etc. Since almost every system vendor provides a
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5 different interface for packet capture, and since we've developed several
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6 tools that require this functionality, we've created this system-independent
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7 API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for several
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8 system-dependent packet capture modules in each application.
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