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13 changes: 1 addition & 12 deletions source/reference/program/mongosniff.txt
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.. note::

:program:`mongosniff` requires ``libpcap`` and is only available for
Unix-like systems. Furthermore, the version distributed with the
MongoDB binaries is dynamically linked against aversion 0.9 of
``libpcap``. If your system has a different version of ``libpcap``, you
will need to compile :program:`mongosniff` yourself or create a
symbolic link pointing to ``libpcap.so.0.9`` to your local version
of ``libpcap``. Use an operation that resembles the following:

.. code-block:: sh

ln -s /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.1.1 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9

Change the path's and name of the shared library as needed.
Unix-like systems.

As an alternative to :program:`mongosniff`, Wireshark, a popular
network sniffing tool is capable of inspecting and parsing the MongoDB
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