libpcap0.8-dev

Package contains libraries, required by other applications as dependencies. Do not install separately.

development library and header files for libpcap0.8
Headers, static libraries, and documentation for the libpcap library.
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libpcap (Packet CAPture) provides a portable framework for low-level
network monitoring. Applications include network statistics
collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc.
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Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for
packet capture, and since there are 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.