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"SLC5X: Letter L: libpcap

libpcap - A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.

Website: http://www.tcpdump.org
License: BSD
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network
monitoring.  Libpcap can provide network statistics collection,
security monitoring and network debugging.  Since almost every system
vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, the libpcap
authors created this system-independent API to ease in porting and to
alleviate the need for several system-dependent packet capture modules
in each application.

Install libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring
on your network.

Packages

libpcap-0.9.4-15.el5.i386 [108 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2009-11-11):
- don't crash when invalid interface index is specified (#497819) 
- fix tcpslice on 64-bit architectures (#485670)
libpcap-0.9.4-14.el5.i386 [103 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2008-08-25):
- compile tcpdump with -fno-strict-aliasing

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