pcapinfo

Langue: en

Version: 2007-12-31 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

Sommaire

NAME

pcapinfo - 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

Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni, <sebastien@aperghis.net> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Sebastien 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.