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This page was started to collect various patches that have been
floating around for LBL's tcpdump and
libpcap programs, and to continue the work needed on both projects.

Mirrors

There are some mirrors of this page
that might be closer to you, or just generally faster.

Documentation

 Full documentation is provided with the source packages in man page format. 
People with Windows distributions are best to check the Windows PCAP page for references to WinDUMP. What follows are the man pages formatted to HTML
using man2html.



 tcpdump.1
 pcap.3
 PCAP tutorial by timcarst at yahoo dot com.
 NAU's Computer Systems Engineering has a tutorial on using libpcap.


TCPDUMP 3.7
TCPDUMP version 3.7.1 has been released. This is the first release of tcpdump 3.7.
There are many changes to tcpdump in past year. See the change log for brief summary (55 lines of them). If you want more in depth details, please see the 
CVS log summary for 2001..
No current binaries are available.

 tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz
(changelog)
 libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
(changelog)



TCPDUMP 3.6
TCPDUMP version 3.6.1 was released on January 10, 2001, and 3.6.2 was released
on February 5, 2001. 3.6.2 fixes problems compiling on older Linux distributions.
The current version is 3.6.2 (0.6.2 for libpcap).

Binaries for some platforms are available.
If you can offer binary/RPM distributions, please contact tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org. 

 tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz
(changelog)
 libpcap-0.6.2.tar.gz
(changelog)


Common problems

A FAQ is being developed.

Anonymous CVS

There is an anonymous CVS server from which the latest versions of
libpcap and tcpdump can be retrieved. To
checkout a copy, do:


cvs -d :pserver:tcpdump@cvs.tcpdump.org:/tcpdump/master login

Use the password "anoncvs"

cvs -d :pserver:tcpdump@cvs.tcpdump.org:/tcpdump/master checkout libpcap tcpdump

One can then configure and compile the source via the normal GNU
autoconf method.

CVSWeb

You can browse the current repository
using cvsweb.


Current Tar files
One can download the day's files here. They are produced from the
CVS repository at 4am EST every night. They include the appropriate
CVS control files, so that one can download these files and then do updates.

 tcpdump-current.tar.gz
 libpcap-current.tar.gz


The dailies are kept for 14 days.  If you wish to reference something more permanent (no promises!!!) then you might want the weeklies. 

Mailing lists

There are two mailing lists that have been setup:


  tcpdump-announce@tcpdump.org 
 this list is for announcements only. It is archived here.

 tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org
 this list is for discussion of code. It will also receive
announcements, so one need only subscribe to one list or the other. It
is archived here.
 There is also a digested version of this list.


To subscribe to these lists, please email to tcpdump-workers-request@tcpdump.org, 
or tcpdump-announce-request@tcpdump.org. In the body, put the word "subscribe".

We are now using

for bug tracking.  Please submit bugs here:

libpcap:
bugs |
patches

tcpdump:
bugs |
patches


What can I do?

We need people to:

 download and test versions of tcpdump on their platform
 write release notes
 contribute code
 maintain web pages (less important now)

								
								
				             
				    
				                
				
				
				    
						
				    
				
				
				
		


Last updated: $Date: 2002/05/13 21:46:05 $ by JWS