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Bug#245995: ITP: libpcap-mmap -- System interface for user-level packet capture (MMAP version)



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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