Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!newsfeeds.nerdc.ufl.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.corridex.com!nntp2.savvis.net!inetarena.com!not-for-mail From: Tim Potter Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules Subject: ANNOUNCE: Net::Pcap 0.03 Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.modules Date: 31 Mar 1999 13:23:10 GMT Organization: Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Computational Systems Lines: 28 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <7dt7ju$l1u$1@play.inetarena.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: halfdome.holdit.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:271 comp.lang.perl.modules:9908 Available now from a CPAN near you. Net::Pcap is a Perl interface to the LBL pcap(3) library for packet capture systems. Version 0.03 is a re-implementation of Peter Lister's original version and contains the following improvements: - all pcap library functions fully implemented - various bug fixes - packet header and statistical information passed as "native" perl hashes - POD documentation The source code for the LBL pcap library can be found at ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap.tar.Z. If you're running Linux, there should be a packaged up version of libpcap available for your system. Check the nearest mirror site of your favourite distribution. Tim. -- Tim Potter, System Admin/Programmer, Head Bee Guy Advanced Computational Systems CRC, RSISE Bldg Australian National University, Canberra 0200, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 62798813 Fax: +61 2 62798602