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PcapPlusPlus consists of 3 libraries:

• Packet++ - a library for parsing, creating and editing network packets
• Pcap++ - a library for intercepting and sending packets, providing network and NIC info, stats, etc. It is actually a C++ wrapper for packet capturing engines such as libpcap, WinPcap, DPDK and PF_RING
• Common++ - a library with some common code utilities used by both Packet++ and Pcap++

The dependency model between the libraries is as follows:

+----------+     +----------+     +----------+
| Common++ | ==> | Packet++ | ==> |  Pcap++  |
+----------+     +----------+     +----------+

That means, you can use Common++ separately from the other libraries, and you can also use Packet++ without Pcap++.

All of PcapPlusPlus APIs including classes for all of these libraries, files, data structures, etc. are documented in details using Doxygen.