[Winpcap-users] Using WinPcap "breaks" TCP

[Ioan Popescu]

1603 at gmx.de wrote:
> Hello Marc,
> 
> 
>> Googling, I just found that there seems to be problem with using Winpcap and
>> Kerio Firewall [...]
> 
> I can certainly vouch for that, this very problem has been bugging me for
> quite some time. It has even gotten worse over the releases:
> 
> On machines running Kerio (v2.1.5, I believe) I can't upgrade WinPCap
> to anything higher than v3.1beta4. Even switching to beta5 causes the
> system to freeze when starting a trace in Ethereal, sometimes the
> first time, usually the second one (start-stop-start-freeze.)
> 
> Unfortunatly I can't abandon Kerio either because inspite of intensive
> searching I have yet to find an adequate replacement. I've looked at
> what must be close to 50 different firewalls but was unable to find
> anything suitable. If you discover something interesting, I'd be
> grateful for a hint.

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Filseclab sometimes crashes (but restarting it is easy and it continues to
work). Both are free.

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
http://www.filseclab.com/eng/products/firewall.htm