WinPcap

Name: WinPcap
Works on: windows

Windows NT and above

Version: 4.1
Last Updated: 27 Mar 2017
Release: 09 Mar 2013
Category: Network Tools > Protocol Analyzers and Sniffers

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WinPcap Tags

packet library network access protocol stack packet library layer network

WinPcap Details

Rating: 2.217391304 out of 5 based on 23 user ratings

Downloads: 291
License: Free

WinPcap is a free software by CACE Technologies and works on Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Vista, Windows 2012.
You can download WinPcap which is 915.13 KB in size and belongs to the software category Protocol Analyzers and Sniffers.
WinPcap was released on 2013-03-09 and last updated on our database on 2017-03-27 and is currently at version 4.1.

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WinPcap Description

High performance:
WinPcap 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. For these reasons, WinPcap outperforms other comparable approaches.
Popular:
WinPcap is used as the network interface by many tools -- both free and commercial including protocol analyzers, network monitors, network intrusion detection systems, sniffers, traffic generators, network testers, etc. Some of these tools, like Ethereal, Nmap, Snort, WinDump, ntop are very well known in the networking community. WinPcap is downloaded thousands of times every day.
Tested and Reliable:
Many users have contributed over the years in testing WinPcap on a wide range of platforms, and in finding the most subtle bugs. WinPcap developers are experienced Windows driver writers, and their approach to software development emphasizes rock-solid stability. Remember: a buggy driver means blue screens.
Easy to use for the final user:
WinPcap is distributed as a single small executable that runs on every supported operating system. You launch the executable, and from that moment Windows is able to capture and send raw network traffic. It couldn't be easier.
Easy to use for the programmer. Every version of WinPcap comes with a developer's pack that includes documentation, libraries and include files needed to immediately start with your own new application. The developer's pack contains a set of sample programs ready to be compiled both with Visual Studio and Cygnus, and are available as excellent starting points.
Multi-platform:
WinPcap is actively maintained on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. WinPcap can also work on Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME, but these OSes are not maintained any longer. Windows Vista has a preliminary support, with some features disabled.
Portable:
WinPcap is completely compatible with libpcap. This means that you can use it to port your existing Unix or Linux tools to Windows. This also means that your Windows applications will be easily portable to Unix.
Well documented:
The WinPcap manual documents the API and the internals in an easy-to-follow hyperlinked manner. The documentation includes a tutorial that takes you step-by-step through all of the features of WinPcap.

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