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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:00:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: tcpdump 3.0?
Message-ID:  <199502171900.LAA12577@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <23508.793026162@utis156.cs.utwente.nl> from "Andras Olah" at Feb 17, 95 02:02:42 pm

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> On Fri, 17 Feb 1995 04:52:11 PST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > If libpcap is of general utility, and not just good for tcpdump, then
> > it should live in /usr/src/lib/libpcap.  If otherwise, then it should be
> > next to the tcpdump sources (tcpdump becomes a two-level directory structure)
> > as you say.
> 
> `libpcap, a system-independent interface for user-level packet
> capture.  libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level
> network monitoring.  Applications include network statistics
> collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc.' (from the
> README).
> 
> I'd suggest /usr/lib/libpcap* if there're no objections.

Jordan imported libpcap as /usr/src/lib/libpcap a while back, it
is already there:
hookturn# cvs rlog Makefile 

RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libpcap/Makefile,v
Working file: Makefile
head: 1.1
branch: 1.1.1
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
	libpcap: 1.1.1.1
	libpcap: 1.1.1
comment leader: "# "
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
description:
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 1995/01/20 04:13:06;  author: jkh;  state: Exp;
branches:  1.1.1;
Initial revision
----------------------------
revision 1.1.1.1
date: 1995/01/20 04:13:07;  author: jkh;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -0
Add the Packet Capture Library from Michael Reifenberger.
Submitted by:   mr
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