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 root privileges.

AUTHOR 

Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni, <sebastien@aperghis.net>

COPYRIGHT 

Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 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.