Description:

Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring.
Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring
and network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a
different interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this
system-independent API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for
several system-dependent packet capture modules in each application.

Install libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring on
your network.

This package contains the static pcap library and its header files needed to
compile applications such as tcpdump, etc.