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Re: libpcap for windows
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 23:28:20 -0700
On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Phoebe K <kphoebe88 () gmail com> wrote:
I am trying to use SILK/YAF and it needs libpcap. I downloaded wireshark and hence lwpcap, but silk is still complaining that it cannot find libpcap. How do I build libpcap for windows (Cygwin)?
You can't; it's not supported. Libpcap expects the OS to provide a packet capture mechanism for it to use, and Windows doesn't provide one. libpcap-for-Windows is WinPcap; it includes drivers to provide a packet capture mechanism. CERT only seems to provide SiLK in source-code form: http://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/download.html They mention Cygwin here: http://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/index.html It presumably uses WinPcap on Cygwin; to build a program that uses WinPcap, you need the WinPcap developer's pack: http://www.winpcap.org/devel.htm in addition to the WinPcap binaries. _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
Current thread:
- libpcap for windows Phoebe K (Aug 17)
- Re: libpcap for windows Guy Harris (Aug 17)
- Re: libpcap for windows Phoebe K (Aug 18)
- Re: libpcap for windows Guy Harris (Aug 18)
- Re: libpcap for windows Phoebe K (Aug 18)
- Re: libpcap for windows Guy Harris (Aug 17)