* Introduction ruby-pcap is a ruby extension to LBL libpcap (Packet Capture library). This library also includes classes to access TCP/IP header. * Installation Requirements: - ruby-1.8.x or ruby-1.9.2 - libpcap (http://www.tcpdump.org/) Compile: If ruby supports dynamic link of extension module on your OS, following commands will install ruby-pcap. rake build sudo gem install pkg/pcap*.gem * Usage See the documentation under the directory 'doc'. Directory 'examples' contains some simple scripts. * Author Masaki Fukushima <fukusima@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp> * Modifications by Andrew Hobson <ahobson@gmail.com> * OS X and Ruby 1.9.2 support by Tim Jarratt <tjarratt@gmail.com> * Performance Improvements and other great contributes by Ilya Maykov ruby-pcap is copyrighted free software by Masaki Fukushima. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE). See COPYING file about GPL. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GPL for more details.