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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Tue Mar 29 17:47:08 2022 +0100 (2022-03-29) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/libpcap/description.txt Tue Mar 29 17:47:08 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ 1.4 +Libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture. 1.5 +Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. 1.6 +Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring, 1.7 +network debugging, etc. Since almost every system vendor provides a 1.8 +different interface for packet capture, and since we've developed several 1.9 +tools that require this functionality, we've created this system-independent 1.10 +API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for several 1.11 +system-dependent packet capture modules in each application.