Package: wnpp Owner: "Robert S. Edmonds" <edmonds@debian.org> Severity: wishlist * Package name : libpcap-mmap Version : 0.9.20060417 Upstream Author : Phil Wood <cpw@lanl.gov> and the tcpdump-workers * URL : http://public.lanl.gov/cpw/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : System interface for user-level packet capture (MMAP version) libpcap (Packet CAPture) provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc. . 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. . This package has been built from Phil Wood's modified libpcap sources which enable packet capture in MMAP mode if your Linux kernel has been compiled with CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y. This facilitates packet capture at a higher rate without dropping packets, especially if you have a NAPI aware ethernet device driver. . Further information is available at <URL: http://public.lanl.gov/cpw/> -- Robert Edmonds edmonds@debian.org
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