The libpcap project

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Project Summary

libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture. libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Applications include
network statistics collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc.

In a Nutshell, The libpcap project...

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has had 7,023 commits made by 214 contributors
representing 83,889 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a very well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 21 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 1999
ending with its most recent commit 6 days ago

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https://github.com/the-tcpdump-g...

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Managers:

Michael Richardson

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