This driver is needed for Cain & Abel.It normally automactically installs when you install Cain & Abel(winPcap v3.1).This is just an external install in case it didnt install properly or you need it re-install it.Also included is the 4.0a.
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.
Thanks to its
set of features, WinPcap is the packet capture and filtering engine of
many open source and commercial network tools, including protocol analyzers, network monitors, network intrusion detection systems, sniffers, traffic generators and network testers. Some of these tools, like
Wireshark,
Nmap,
Snort,
ntop are known and used throughout the networking community.
Winpcap.org is also the home of
WinDump, the Windows version of the popular tcpdump tool. WinDump can be used to watch, diagnose and save to disk network traffic according to various complex rules.
WinPcap 3.1- http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WinPcap_3_1.exe 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 WinPcap 4.0a- http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/W...4_0_alpha1.exe Note: You will have to remove any previous versions if you plan to install this. The uninstallment for it will prompt you during the installment of 4.0a WinPcap for WindowsCE- http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/PacketCE.zip Known limitations:
- The driver can be used to open only one adapter that is present in the system. not more than one adapter can be opened at any given point of time. Also, only one instance of the adapter can be opened.
- Statistics mode is not present.
- Only one request at a time is supported, requests are not queued.
- It works on Windows CE 3.0. may work on CE 2.x also but it was never tested.
WinPcap 3.1/4.0a
Linear Mode
