Pcap - WinPcap

WinPcap

WinPcap consists of:

  • x86 and x86-64 drivers for the Windows NT family (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.), which use NDIS to read packets directly from a network adapter;
  • implementations of a lower-level library for the listed operating systems, to communicate with those drivers;
  • a port of libpcap that uses the API offered by the low-level library implementations.

Programmers at the Politecnico di Torino wrote the original code; as of 2008 CACE Technologies, a company set up by some of the WinPcap developers, develops and maintains the product. CACE Technologies was acquired by Riverbed Technology on October 21, 2010.

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