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To: waskita adijarto <waskita@ee.itb.ac.id>
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waskita adijarto <waskita@ee.itb.ac.id> writes:

> talking about libpcap, I think it's just a generic interface to bpf. 

It is a generic interface for grabbing and filtering network packets
on several platforms. It can use a variety of packet grabbing
mechanisms such as bpf, Sun's NIT, Linux's SOCK_PACKET and others.

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen


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