pcap
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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.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Npcap
- Software.developer
- the Nmap project
- Software.latest release version
- 1.79
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Windows
- Software.genre
- Library for packet capture
- Software.license
- Proprietary (source available)
- Software.discontinued
- yes
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12 sectionsContents
- Features
- History
- pcap libraries for Windows
- WinPcap
- Npcap
- Win10Pcap
- Programs that use or used libpcap
- Wrapper libraries for libpcap
- Non-pcap libraries that read pcap files
- Other applications or devices that read or write pcap or pcapng files
- References
- External links
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.
Monitoring software may use libpcap, WinPcap, or Npcap to capture network packets traveling over a computer network and, in newer versions, to transmit packets on a network at the link layer, and to get a list of network interfaces for possible use with libpcap, WinPcap, or Npcap.