Network tools like wireshark, tcpdump, etc, are fairly popular for packet sniffing. This article provides a basic overview of the libpcap library which forms the base of packet sniffing for many network monitoring tools including wireshark, tcpdump, snort, etc. What is Packet Sniffing and How it Works? Packet sniffing is a technique through which the [...]
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