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   1 If you have not built libpcap, and your system does not have libpcap
   2 installed, install libpcap first.  Your system might provide a version
   3 of libpcap that can be installed; if so, to compile tcpdump you might
   4 need to install a "developer" version of libpcap as well as the
   5 "run-time" version.  You can also install tcpdump.org's version of
   6 libpcap; see the README file in this directory for the ftp location.
   7
   8 You will need an ANSI C compiler to build tcpdump. The configure script
   9 will abort if your compiler is not ANSI compliant. If this happens, use
  10 the generally available GNU C compiler (GCC).
  11
  12 After libpcap has been built (either install it with "make install" or
  13 make sure both the libpcap and tcpdump source trees are in the same
  14 directory), run ./configure (a shell script).  "configure" will
  15 determine your system attributes and generate an appropriate Makefile
  16 from Makefile.in.  Now build tcpdump by running "make".
  17
  18 If everything builds ok, su and type "make install".  This will install
  19 tcpdump and the manual entry.  Any user will be able to use tcpdump to
  20 read saved captures.  Whether a user will be able to capture traffic
  21 depends on the OS and the configuration of the system; see the tcpdump
  22 man page for details.  DO NOT give untrusted users the ability to
  23 capture traffic.  If a user can capture traffic, he or she could use
  24 utilities such as tcpdump to capture any traffic on your net, including
  25 passwords.
  26
  27 Note that most systems ship tcpdump, but usually an older version.
  28 Remember to remove or rename the installed binary when upgrading.
  29
  30 If your system is not one which we have tested tcpdump on, you may have
  31 to modify the configure script and Makefile.in. Please send us patches
  32 for any modifications you need to make.
  33
  34 Please see "PLATFORMS" for notes about tested platforms.
  35
  36
  37 FILES
  38 -----
  39 CHANGES         - description of differences between releases
  40 CONTRIBUTING    - guidelines for contributing
  41 CREDITS         - people that have helped tcpdump along
  42 INSTALL.txt     - this file
  43 LICENSE         - the license under which tcpdump is distributed
  44 Makefile.in     - compilation rules (input to the configure script)
  45 README          - description of distribution
  46 Readme.Win32    - notes on building tcpdump on Win32 systems (with WinPcap)
  47 VERSION         - version of this release
  48 aclocal.m4      - autoconf macros
  49 addrtoname.c    - address to hostname routines
  50 addrtoname.h    - address to hostname definitions
  51 addrtostr.c     - address to printable string routines
  52 addrtostr.h     - address to printable string definitions
  53 ah.h            - IPSEC Authentication Header definitions
  54 appletalk.h     - AppleTalk definitions
  55 ascii_strcasecmp.c - locale-independent case-independent string comparison
  56                 routines
  57 atime.awk       - TCP ack awk script
  58 atm.h           - ATM traffic type definitions
  59 bpf_dump.c      - BPF program printing routines, in case libpcap doesn't
  60                   have them
  61 chdlc.h         - Cisco HDLC definitions
  62 cpack.c         - functions to extract packed data
  63 cpack.h         - declarations of functions to extract packed data
  64 config.guess    - autoconf support
  65 config.h.in     - autoconf input
  66 config.sub      - autoconf support
  67 configure       - configure script (run this first)
  68 configure.ac    - configure script source
  69 ethertype.h     - Ethernet type value definitions
  70 extract.h       - alignment definitions
  71 gmpls.c         - GMPLS definitions
  72 gmpls.h         - GMPLS declarations
  73 install-sh      - BSD style install script
  74 interface.h     - globals, prototypes and definitions
  75 ip.h            - IP definitions
  76 ip6.h           - IPv6 definitions
  77 ipproto.c       - IP protocol type value-to-name table
  78 ipproto.h       - IP protocol type value definitions
  79 l2vpn.c         - L2VPN encapsulation value-to-name table
  80 l2vpn.h         - L2VPN encapsulation definitions
  81 lbl/os-*.h      - OS-dependent defines and prototypes
  82 llc.h           - LLC definitions
  83 machdep.c       - machine dependent routines
  84 machdep.h       - machine dependent definitions
  85 makemib         - mib to header script
  86 mib.h           - mib definitions
  87 missing/*       - replacements for missing library functions
  88 mkdep           - construct Makefile dependency list
  89 mpls.h          - MPLS definitions
  90 nameser.h       - DNS definitions
  91 netdissect.h    - definitions and declarations for tcpdump-as-library
  92                   (under development)
  93 nfs.h           - Network File System V2 definitions
  94 nfsfh.h         - Network File System file handle definitions
  95 nlpid.c         - OSI NLPID value-to-name table
  96 nlpid.h         - OSI NLPID definitions
  97 ospf.h          - Open Shortest Path First definitions
  98 packetdat.awk   - TCP chunk summary awk script
  99 parsenfsfh.c    - Network File System file parser routines
 100 pcap-missing.h  - declarations of functions possibly missing from libpcap
 101 ppp.h           - Point to Point Protocol definitions
 102 print.c         - Top-level routines for protocol printing
 103 print-*.c       - The netdissect printers
 104 rpc_auth.h      - definitions for ONC RPC authentication
 105 rpc_msg.h       - definitions for ONC RPC messages
 106 send-ack.awk    - unidirectional tcp send/ack awk script
 107 slcompress.h    - SLIP/PPP Van Jacobson compression (RFC1144) definitions
 108 smb.h           - SMB/CIFS definitions
 109 smbutil.c       - SMB/CIFS utility routines
 110 stime.awk       - TCP send awk script
 111 tcp.h           - TCP definitions
 112 tcpdump.1       - manual entry
 113 tcpdump.c       - main program
 114 timeval-operations.h - timeval operations macros
 115 udp.h           - UDP definitions
 116 util-print.c    - utility routines for protocol printers
 117 win32           - headers and routines for building on Win32 systems