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.

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