[Winpcap-users] Regarding driver & Custom setup.

Mon Sep 13 21:29:27 PDT 2010

On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Mygapula, Sudheer IN BLR SISL wrote:

> I mean the Winpcap prof source code which can be used with out installing driver.
>  
> The DLL’ explained in the link will not work without driver installation is it right ?

Correct.  Windows, unlike the UN*Xes on which libpcap works, does not include an in-kernel capture mechanism that *pcap can use, so WinPcap includes, and requires, a driver that provides that in-kernel capture mechanism.  (Windows includes NDIS, but it doesn't include a way to read, from user mode, packets provided by NDIS.)