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WinPcap

Industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows. Created by Riverbed Technology

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Windows

WinPcap is the first successful port of libpcap (originally developed for Unix-like operating systems) for Windows.
Features of WinPcap:
-WinPcap is released under the BSD open source licence.
-It implements all of the classic optimizations described in the packet capture literature (e.g., kernel-level filtering and buffering, context switch mitigation, partial packet copy), plus some original ones, like JIT filter compilation and kernel-level statistic processing.
- It allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack.
-It has additional useful features, including kernel-level packet filtering, a network statistics engine and support for remote packet capture.... More Info »

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Network & Admin

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network-monitoring packet-capture

WinPcap was added by l3x0r in Mar 2010 and the latest update was made in Dec 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Dec 2017 There is a history of all activites on WinPcap in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on WinPcap or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by richardh9935

about WinPcap · Jan 2018 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

WinPcap's web site hasn't been updated since 2013-03-08, so I suspect they've been unable to maintain it. No rating from me.

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