Linux cli command pcapinfop

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NAME 🖥️ pcapinfop 🖥️

Prints detailed information about the network devices

SYNOPSIS

pcapinfo

OPTIONS

None.

DESCRIPTION

pcapinfo prints detailed information about the network devices and Pcap library available on the current host. Here is an example:

Host information —————- Hostname : fangorn.maddingue.net Aliases : fangorn.local fangorn Pcap version : libpcap version 0.8.3 Devices information ——————- Device eth0 (default) Description : No description available Link type : Ethernet, no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok Hardware address : 00:0c:6e:0a:c3:ca Network address : 10.0.1.51 Network mask : 255.255.255.0 Flags : up running broadcast multicast Device eth1 Description : No description available Link type : Ethernet, no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok Hardware address : 00:26:54:0a:d8:4d Network address : 192.168.1.51 Network mask : 255.255.255.0 Flags : up running broadcast multicast

The device marked as "(default)" is the one returned when calling Net::Pcap::lookupdev()

Some information like the link type can only be gathered with administrative privileges.

AUTHOR

Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni, <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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