The parts of the program originally taken from Sun’s etherfind were later re-written by Steven McCanne of LBL. It was originally written by Van Jacobson as part of an ongoing research project to investigate and improve TCP and Internet gateway performance. The program is loosely based on SMI‘s “etherfind” although none of the etherfind code remains.

libpcap), you can build tcpdump using the procedure in the installation guide. Once libpcap is built (either install it or make sure it's in. Before building tcpdump, you must first retrieve and build libpcap. Tcpdump uses libpcap, a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.

Windows (requires WinPcap or Npcap, and Visual Studio with CMake).

Tcpdump compiles and works on at least the following platforms: However, the native packages are sometimes a few versions behind and to try a more recent snapshot it will take to compile tcpdump from the source code. In many operating systems tcpdump is available as a native package or port, which simplifies installation of updates and long-term maintenance. Over the past few years, tcpdump has been steadily improved by the excellent contributions from the Internet community (just browse through the change log). This directory contains source code for tcpdump, a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition.

To report a security issue please send an e-mail to report bugs and other problems, contribute patches, request a feature, provide generic feedback etc please see the guidelines for contributing in the tcpdump source tree root.

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