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Application programming interface for capturing network traffic

In the field of computer network administration, pcap is an application programming interface (API) for capturing network traffic. While the name is an abbreviation of packet capture, that is not the API's proper name. Unix-like systems implement pcap in the libpcap library; for Windows, there is a port of libpcap named WinPcap that is no longer supported or developed, and a port named Npcap for Windows 7 and later that is still supported. Wikipedia →

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  1. Features
  2. History
  3. pcap libraries for Windows
  4. Programs that use or used libpcap
  5. Wrapper libraries for libpcap
  6. Non-pcap libraries that read pcap files
  7. Other applications or devices that read or write pcap or pcapng files

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