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= pcap - a binding to libpcap

libpcap is the library behind the commonly use tcpdump utility. It allows

reading packet captures live from a network, as well as reading and writing

saved packet captures in "pcap" format. It has been ported to many operating

systems.

The binding doesn't implement the full libpcap API, just what we've needed so

far.

To build, see Makefile, it supports FreeBSD, Linux and OS X.

To decode the packets, you might want to use libnet's lua bindings, see the

lua/ subdirectory of <https://github.com/sam-github/libnet>.

Homepage: <https://github.com/sam-github/pcap-lua>

Author: <sroberts@wurldtech.com>

If this doesn't do what you need,

<https://github.com/javierguerragiraldez/pcaplua> is a binding to a different

subset of libpcap's API. Also, it has tcp/ip parsing functions, whereas we use

libnet for that.

Documentation:

See below, extracted from in-source comments.