WinPcap-Network Tool
//TweetDISPLAY: >>ALL // >>FREEWARE// >>LATEST ADDITIONS
download external mirror
version: 4.1.1
Size: 903,20 KB
License:Freeware/FREE
OS:Windows All…XP/Vista/7
Developer: CACE Technologies
WinPcap is the industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments.
It allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack, and has additional useful features, including kernel-level packet filtering, a network statistics engine and support for remote packet capture.
WinPcap consists of a driver, that extends the operating system to provide low-level network access, and a library that is used to easily access the low-level network layers.This library also contains the Windows version of the well known libpcap Unix API.
WinPcap is used by many applications, both commercial as freeware: protocol analyzers, network monitors, network intrusion detection systems, sniffers, traffic generators, network testers, etc
Key features of WinPcap:
-High performance. WinPcap implements all of the classic optimizations described in the packet capture literature -e.g., kernel-level filtering and buffering, context switch mitigation, partial packet copy-, plus some original ones, like JIT filter compilation and kernel-level statistic processing. For these reasons, WinPcap outperforms other comparable approaches.
-Popular. WinPcap is used as the network interface by many tools – both free and commercial including protocol analyzers, network monitors, network intrusion detection systems, sniffers, traffic generators, network testers, etc.
-Tested and Reliable. Many users have contributed over the years in testing WinPcap on a wide 
range of platforms, and in finding the most subtle bugs. WinPcap developers are experienced Windows driver writers, and their approach to software development emphasizes rock-solid stability. Remember: a buggy driver means blue screens.
-Easy to use for the final user. WinPcap is distributed as a single small executable that runs on every supported operating system. You launch the executable, and from that moment Windows is able to capture and send raw network traffic. It couldn’t be easier.
-Easy to use for the programmer. Every version of WinPcap comes with a developer’s pack that includes documentation, libraries and include files needed to immediately start with your own new application.
-Portable. WinPcap is completely compatible with libpcap. This means that you can use it to port your existing Unix or Linux tools to Windows. This also means that your Windows applications will be easily portable to Unix.
-Well documented. The WinPcap manual documents the API and the internals in an easy-to-follow hyperlinked manner. The documentation includes a tutorial that takes you step-by-step through all of the features of WinPcap.
New in This Release:
This release fixes a bug in the installer of WinPcap 4.1. The binaries were not digitally signed, thus preventing the WinPcap driver from working on Vista/2008/Win7/2008R2 x64.
%A %B %e%q, %Y Posted in Internet, Network/IP Tools
