Modules | |
Definitions | |
Exported functions | |
WinPcap tutorial: a step by step guide to program WinPcap | |
Filtering expression syntax | |
Using WinPcap in your programs |
This section contains the user manual of wpcap.dll
, the
dynamic library that contains the public WinPcap API. wpcap.dll exports a set of
system independent functions for packet
capture and network analysis. These functions allow to:
wpcap.dll is compatible with libpcap, the well known packet capture library for Unix. This compatibility allows to write portable network tools that will work on the whole Win32 OS family and on all the major Unix flavors.
Several portions of the manuals present in this section derive directly from the man pages of tcpdump and libpcap, maintained by the tcpdump.org developers. Therefore, if you are looking for updated docs, you can consult the web site www.tcpdump.org.
Inside the manual, some functions are marked with the labels deprecated or discouraged. The meaning of these labels is the following:
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