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the-tcpdump-group
libpcap
C2016–2022
the-tcpdump-group / libpcap

libpcap

the LIBpcap interface to various kernel packet capture mechanism

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.2KGitHub stars
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the LIBpcap interface to various kernel packet capture mechanism

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-17 10:39:13 UTC to 2022-11-14 16:10:55 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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No, it's not full implementation. The main difference between this and Zalewski implementation is using direct mapping data between kernel space and userspace. Zalewski implementation uses pcap for capturing packets. If you have huge workloads you can try this https://gist.github.com/xpahos/4bc215aa5fe237161bc076f247643... to try multithreaded capturing packets(https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/pull/674). My implementation creates a hash map between kernel space and userspace where eBPF(kernel space, directly from sk_buff) code stores parsed data in this map. After accepting a connection in userspace application could check this hash map and get data from kernel space to userspace. So it's possible to add p0f extra data to request headers directly inside load balancer/web server and pass it to underlying levels. > Does anybody
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have an p0f3 fingerprint files later than those that Zalewski put in the distribution? They're 3+ years out of date at this point, I don't know. Another team uses fingerprinting to check if it's a robot.
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