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authorfenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>2001-04-03 04:18:09 +0000
committerfenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>2001-04-03 04:18:09 +0000
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Virgin import of tcpdump.org libpcap v0.6.2
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@@ -1,10 +1,24 @@
-@(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/README,v 1.18.1.1 1999/10/07 23:46:40 mcr Exp $ (LBL)
+@(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/README,v 1.22 2000/07/13 06:24:14 guy Exp $ (LBL)
-LIBPCAP 0.4
-Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
-Network Research Group
-libpcap@ee.lbl.gov
-ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap.tar.Z
+LIBPCAP 0.5
+Now maintained by "The Tcpdump Group"
+See www.tcpdump.org
+
+Please send inquiries/comments/reports to tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org
+
+Anonymous CVS is available via:
+ cvs -d cvs.tcpdump.org:/tcpdump/master login
+ (password "anoncvs")
+ cvs -d cvs.tcpdump.org:/tcpdump/master checkout libpcap
+
+Version 0.5 of LIBPCAP can be retrived with the CVS tag "libpcap_0_5":
+ cvs -d cvs.tcpdump.org:/tcpdump/master checkout -r libpcap_0_5 libpcap
+
+Please send patches against the master copy to patches@tcpdump.org.
+
+formerly from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
+ Network Research Group <libpcap@ee.lbl.gov>
+ ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/libpcap.tar.Z (0.4)
This directory contains source code for libpcap, a system-independent
interface for user-level packet capture. libpcap provides a portable
@@ -33,17 +47,19 @@ added overhead (especially, for selective filters). Ideally, libpcap
would translate BPF filters into a filter program that is compatible
with the underlying kernel subsystem, but this is not yet implemented.
-BPF is standard in 4.4BSD, BSD/386, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. DEC OSF/1
+BPF is standard in 4.4BSD, BSD/OS, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. DEC OSF/1
uses the packetfilter interface but has been extended to accept BPF
filters (which libpcap utilizes). Also, you can add BPF filter support
to Ultrix using the kernel source and/or object patches available in:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/net/bpfext42.tar.Z.
-Problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, source code
-contributions, etc., should be sent to the email address
-"libpcap@ee.lbl.gov".
+Problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, etc.
+should be sent to the address "tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org".
+
+Source code contributions, etc. should be sent to the email address
+"patches@tcpdump.org".
+
+Current versions can be found at www.tcpdump.org
- - Steve McCanne
- Craig Leres
- Van Jacobson
+ - The TCPdump team
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