Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Windows Packet Capture routines

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:30:22 -0600
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 09:12:23PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I have looked at the WinDump code a bit more.  It os GPL'd and contains
> > code to do packet capture at the NDIS level for both Win95 and WinNT.
> 
> Yeah, the drivers appear to be new GPLed code rather than the earlier
> stuff, which looked similar to some Microsoft sample code whose
> distribution restrictions I wasn't sure of.
> 
> Microsoft Research funded some of their work, so at least one part of
> Microsoft doesn't disapprove.

Another port of libpcap to win32 is at

http://www-serra.unipi.it/~ntop/libpcap.html

Luca Deri, the author of the port, was very helpful in getting it
to work on my NT system a long time ago.

--gilbert