[Winpcap-users] Windows 10 support for WinPcap

[Pascal Quantin]

Hi Sven,

2016-02-04 9:30 GMT+01:00 Sven Kerschbaum <svkers at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> is there already effort for getting WinPcap ready for Windows 10? As
> Pascal Quantin already pointed out WinPcap does not run on Windows 10 due
> to the fact that the WinPcap driver is not an NDIS 6 driver. Please find
> more information here:
> http://www.winpcap.org/pipermail/winpcap-users/2015-March/004936.html
>
> Searching the internet I found a port of the WinPcap driver to NDIS 6
> which has been done by Daiyuu Nobori . Unfortunately, the sources are
> licensed under GPL and not BSD-like the original WinPcap. Furthermore, I
> did not found any references about the quality of this port and about the
> roadmap? Will it be maintained in future or was it just a kind of proof of
> concept? Find more information here: http://www.win10pcap.org/
>
> I would prefer to use an official release from WinPcap... Does anyone know
> more about the WinPcap roadmap? What is the current state?
>

Since that time, Microsoft reverted their change and WinPcap 4.1.3 is
working fine on Windows 10. So you can use it.
As Guy indicated, Npcap is a pretty good fork of WinPcap source code (using
MIT license) with NDIS6.0 and other new features, with an active developer
and I use it daily.

Regards,
Pascal.
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