PCAPINFO(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      PCAPINFO(1p)

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

       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.

perl v5.14.2							    2008-01-01							      PCAPINFO(1p)