[Solved] What is needed to make a packet capture system? [closed]


What you’re trying to develop already exists for many years, and with multiple implementations:

  1. Wireshark
  2. TCPDump.

Both applications can write the packets in the PCAP format. Bear in mind that these applications require root access and privileges as they ask the kernel to fork the incoming packets to your application.

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solved What is needed to make a packet capture system? [closed]