The following instructions apply if you have a Linux or FreeBSD platform and want libpcap to support the DAG range of passive network monitoring cards from Endace (http://www.endace.com, see below for further contact details). 1) Install and build the DAG software distribution by following the instructions supplied with that package. Current Endace customers can download the DAG software distibution from https://www.endace.com 2) Configure libcap. To allow the 'configure' script to locate the DAG software distribution use the '--with-dag' option: ./configure --with-dag=DIR Where DIR is the root of the DAG software distribution, for example /var/src/dag. If the DAG software is correctly detected 'configure' will report: checking whether we have DAG API... yes If 'configure' reports that there is no DAG API, the directory may have been incorrectly specified or the DAG software was not built before configuring libpcap. See also the libpcap INSTALL.txt file for further libpcap configuration options. Building libpcap at this stage will include support for both the native packet capture stream (linux or bpf) and for capturing from DAG cards. To build libpcap with only DAG support specify the capture type as 'dag' when configuring libpcap: ./configure --with-dag=DIR --with-pcap=dag Applications built with libpcap configured in this way will only detect DAG cards and will not capture from the native OS packet stream. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please submit bug reports via . Please also visit our Web pages at: http://www.endace.com/ http://dag.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ For more information about Endace DAG cards contact .