portability of perl packages for pcap

Question

Kurt gave an interesting perl script to check if a blacklisted IP addresses appeared in a pcap file. I love perl but not sure if the packages such as Net::Pcap is ported to cygwin.

Answer 1

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On Windows you can use ActiveState Perl, which contains Net::Pcap, or at least you can easily install it with ppm (ppm install Net::Pcap).

I tested my example with ActivePerl on Windows :-)

BTW: You can try to install Net::Pcap for Cygwin as well, but it seems to be quite some work.

http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_somian/journal/27529.html

I can't help you with that, as I'm not using Cygwin.

Regards
Kurt

answered 21 Nov '15, 11:21

Kurt Knochner ♦
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edited 21 Nov '15, 11:25

Thanks for the answer, it appears that ActiveState perl doesn't have the support any more: C:\Perl64\bin>ppm install Net::Pcap Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done Updating ActiveState Package Repository database...done ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides Net::Pcap. I am using ActiveState perl 5.14.2 on Win7.

(23 Nov '15, 07:36) pktUser1001

I run 5.16.3 and it's there, however I do have the 32-bit version. Maybe they don't offer a 64-bit version of Net::Pcap. Please try the 32-bit version of Perl.

(23 Nov '15, 08:26) Kurt Knochner ♦

perl -v This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2012, Larry Wall Binary build 1604 [298023] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com Built Apr 14 2014 14:32:20 Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

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perl  -e "use Net::Pcap; print $Net::Pcap::VERSION"
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(23 Nov ‘15, 11:12) Kurt Knochner ♦