NAME

netsnmp-pcap - SNMP extension which captures network traffic and reports the number of packets captured, and the throughput

DESCRIPTION

This program is a port of bsnmpd-pcap, the pcap plugin for FreeBSD's bsnmpd, as an AgentX for Net-SNMP, written in Perl. It allows you to measure arbitrary network traffic, in packets or octets, using the pcap(3) library. Multiple flows of traffic can be measured by setting as many network monitors, with different filters.

INSTALLATION

To install this program, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this program with the perldoc or man commands.

perldoc netsnmp-pcap

man netsnmp-pcap

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt

AUTHOR

Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni (sebastien@aperghis.net)