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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2014-11-27 00:15:24 -0800
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+NOTE: this documents the original intent behind libwiretap. Currently,
+it is being developed solely as a library for reading capture files,
+rather than packet capture. The list of file formats is also
+out-of-date.
+
Wiretap is a library that is being developed as a future replacement for
libpcap, the current standard Unix library for packet capturing. Libpcap
is great in that it is very platform independent and has a wonderful