Sniffers

Name: WinPcap_3_1.exe
Description: WinPcap
Version: 3.1
Size: 456 KB (467,181 bytes)
MD5 Sum: 0bc5f4015f8b4bffa9c753bf88e1838c
Developer: See The Team
Developer Website: http://www.winpcap.org
Obtained On: 9/2/2005
Obtained From: http://www.winpcap.org/install/
Download URL: http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WinPcap_3_1.exe
Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003
Purchase Information: Free
Redistributable: Yes
Comments: WinPcap is an architecture for packet capture and network analysis for the Win32 platforms. It includes a kernel-level packet filter, a low-level dynamic link library (packet.dll), and a high-level and system- independent library (wpcap.dll, based on libpcap).

The packet filter is a device driver that adds to Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 the ability to capture and send raw data from a network card, with the possibility to filter and store in a buffer the captured packets.

Packet.dll is an API that can be used to directly access the functions of the packet driver, offering a programming interface independent from the Microsoft OS.

Wpcap.dll exports a set of high level capture primitives that are compatible with libpcap, the well known Unix capture library. These functions allow one to capture packets in a way independent from the underlying network hardware and operating system.

Instructions

IMPORTANT NOTE: the installer is able to detect the newly released Beta1 of Microsoft Vista, and install WinPcap correctly. However WinPcap has not been fully tested on this newly released operating system, since Windows Vista Beta1 was released less than two weeks before WinPcap 3.1. As a consequence, the support for this operating system is limited. In particular, these are the known limitations:

Name: WinDump.exe
Description: WinDump
Version: 3.9.3
Size: 544 KB (557,056 bytes)
MD5 Sum: ef3648e42285976b59bebed6fb04d6dd
Developer: See Credits
Developer Website: http://www.winpcap.org/windump/
Obtained On: 9/2/2005
Obtained From: http://www.winpcap.org/windump/install/default.htm
Download URL: http://www.winpcap.org/windump/install/bin/windump_3_9_3/WinDump.exe
Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003 and WinPcap 3.1 or later version of WinPcap.
Purchase Information: Free
License: See License
Redistributable: Yes
Comments: WinDump is the porting to the Windows platform of tcpdump, the most used network sniffer/analyzer for UNIX. WinDump is fully compatible with tcpdump and can be used to watch and diagnose network traffic according to various complex rules. It can run under Windows 95/98/ME, and under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. There is no installation procedure, just copy the file to the directory from which you wish to run it and then open a command prompt window, use the cd command to change your current directory to that directory and then type "windump".

WinDump uses a libpcap-compatible library for Windows, WinPcap, which is freely downloadable from the WinPcap site.

BEFORE running WinDump 3.8.3 beta you have to download and install WinPcap 3.1. The installer of WinPcap 3.1 is able to correctly detect and install the product on Microsoft Windows Vista (Beta1). However WinPcap has not been fully tested on this newly released operating system, since Windows Vista Beta1 was released less than two weeks before WinPcap 3.1. As a consequence, the support for this operating system is limited. In particular, these are the known limitations:

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