NAME Net::Pcap - Interface to pcap(3) LBL packet capture library DESCRIPTION The Net::Pcap module is a Perl binding to the LBL pcap(3) packet capture library. The latest source code for the Pcap library can be found at . The source code and binary for the Win32 port can be found at . INSTALLATION This module needs an ANSI-compliant compiler, the libpcap and its C headers to be installed on the target system. On many operating systems, simply install the "libpcap" and "libpcap-dev" packages. If the library and C headers are not installed in a standard location, please provide the appropriate paths to Makefile.PL using the INC and/or LIBS options: $ perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/opt/pcap/include \ LIBS='-L/opt/pcap/lib -lpcap' Then compile the extension as per usual: $ make all test $ make install To install the extension in a private directory, you can use the PREFIX option when creating Makefile.PL. For most of the tests, an administrative account is required since opening a network interface in promiscuous mode is a privileged operation. Some tests also require a working network interface with traffic on it otherwise the tests will appear to hang. You can generate traffic by pinging a non existing IP address on your network segment. Consult the source for individual tests for more information. You can select the interface Net::Pcap will use for its tests by creating a file device.txt in the distribution root directory and putting the device name inside. Net::Pcap is compatible with all the versions of the Pcap library, including the old BSD ones and the Windows port WinPcap. Net::Pcap should work on any Perl since 5.004_05. This module has been tested by the author on the following Perl and system versions but is likely to run on many more: Perl Architecture GCC Pcap ------------------------------------------------------------- 5.4.5 i686-linux 3.4.1 0.8.3 5.5.3 i686-linux 3.4.1 0.8.3 5.6.2 i686-linux 3.4.1 0.8.3 5.8.5 i386-linux-thread-multi 3.4.1 0.8.3 5.8.8 i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi 4.0.4 0.9.4 5.8.7 x86_64-linux 4.0.1 0.9.1 5.8.8 i386-freebsd-64int 3.4.4 0.9.1 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level (PowerPC) 4.0.1 For Perl 5.004, you may need to install ExtUtils::Constant with this patch: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=25927 See also the corresponding CPAN Testers page: http://testers.cpan.org/show/Net-Pcap.html and the CPAN Testers Matrix: http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=Net-Pcap SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Net::Pcap You can also look for information at: Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Pcap CPAN Request Tracker: http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-Pcap AnnoCPAN, annotated CPAN documentation: http://annocpan.org/dist/Net-Pcap CPAN Ratings: http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Net-Pcap See also the examples scripts provided in the distribution, in the examples/ subdirectory. HISTORY The original version of Net::Pcap, version 0.01, was written by Peter Lister using SWIG. Version 0.02 was created by Bo Adler with a few bugfixes but not uploaded to CPAN. It can be found at: http://www.buttsoft.com/~thumper/software/perl/Net-Pcap/ Versions 0.03 and 0.04 were created by Tim Potter (TIMPOTTER) who entirely rewrote Net::Pcap using XS and wrote the documentation, with the help of David N. Blank-Edelman for testing and general polishing. Version 0.05 was released by Marco Carnut (KCARNUT) with fixes to make it work with Cygwin and WinPcap. Version 0.04.02 was independantly created by Jean-Louis Morel (JLMOREL) but not uploaded on the CPAN. It can be found here: http://www.bribes.org/perl/wnetpcap.html Based on Tim Potter's version 0.04, it included fixes for WinPcap and added wrappers for several new libpcap functions as well as WinPcap specific functions. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2003 Marco Carnut. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Tim Potter. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 1998 Bo Adler. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 1997 Peter Lister. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.