News
- 5 August, 2008
- The
Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) has just released a
new tool based on WinPcap named 'Switzerland'.
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- According to its creators, "Switzerland is designed to
detect the modification or injection of packets of data
traveling over IP networks, including those introduced by
anti-P2P tools from Sandvine (widely believed to be used by
Comcast to interfere with BitTorrent uploads) and
AudibleMagic, advertising injection systems like FairEagle,
censorship systems like the Great Firewall of China."
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- The full press release can be found
here.
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- 27 May, 2008
- As of today, WinPcap 4.1 beta4 is available in the
download
section
of the WinPcap website.
This new release includes some fixes to the kernel driver,
as well as some new pcap APIs exported by wpcap.dll.
- Full details can be found
in the change log.
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- Being a beta release, as usual, we encourage people to
test it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to the
WinPcap mailing lists.
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- 31 January, 2008
- As of today, WinPcap 4.1 beta3 is available in the
download
section
of the WinPcap website.
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- This new software release includes a couple fixes to the
BPF filter engine in the kernel, as well as several fixes
and additions to the BPF compiler for filters on wireless
traffic (802.11).
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- Full details can be found
in the change log.
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- Being a beta release, as usual, we encourage people to
test it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to the
WinPcap mailing lists.
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- 15 November, 2007
- As of today, WinPcap 4.1 beta2 is available in the
download
section
of the WinPcap website.
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- This new software release includes several improvements
and changes to both the library itself and its developer's
pack. First of all, it fixes a security vulnerability in the
kernel driver reported by the iDefense Labs in
this security advisory.
- It also includes the latest
available snapshot of libpcap (1.0
branch).
- From the developer's point of view, this version
ships with a cleaned up update of the developer's pack. Some
header files that were wrongly included in the old
developer's pack (including some coming from the Microsoft
platform SDK) have been removed. Other files have been
consolidated or split into internal header files (used for
the build of the binaries) and public header files.
- Full details can be found
in the change log.
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- Being a beta release, as usual, we encourage people to
test it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to the
WinPcap mailing lists.
- In particular, we strongly encourage all the developers
to try compiling all their WinPcap-based applications
against the new WinPcap developer's pack and report any
compilation issue to the winpcap-bugs mailing list (winpcap-bugs<AT>winpcap.org).
- 9 November, 2007
- As of today, WinPcap 4.0.2 is available in the
download
section
of the WinPcap website.
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- This maintenance release
addresses a security vulnerability reported by the iDefense
Labs in
this security advisory
Full details can be found
in the change log.
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- 17 July, 2007
- WinPcap developers from China
will be glad to know that Xu Feng Just released a Chinese
translation of the WinPcap 4.0.1 manual. It can be found at
http://WinPcap.CoffeeCat.net.cn.
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- 3 July, 2007
- As of today, WinPcap 4.1 beta is
available in the
download
section
of the WinPcap website.
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- This software release
contains some important security bug fixes to the kernel
driver, as well as the update of libpcap to the 0.9.6
branch.
- Also, it includes some major experimental fixes
to the filter compiler to improve filtering over 802.11
networks.
- Finally this new version includes support for the Per
Packet Info (PPI) encapsulation that will be available in
the upcoming version of AirPcap.
Full details can be found
in the change log.
Being a beta release, as usual we encourage people to
test it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to the
WinPcap mailing lists.
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- 3 July, 2007
- As of today, WinPcap 4.0.1 is
available in the
download
section
of the WinPcap website.
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- This maintenance release
addresses a security vulnerability reported by the iDefense
Labs in
this advisory.
Full details can be found
in the change log.
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- 29 January, 2007
- As of today, WinPcap 4.0 is available in the
download
section
of the WinPcap website.
This software release contains major
improvements to the kernel driver, which has been
thoroughly reviewed (and partially rewritten). As a
result, WinPcap 4.0 is extremely more reliable and
stable than previous versions!
- The 4.0 version also adds the long awaited stable
support for x64 platforms, including Windows XP and the
upcoming Vista.
- Finally, this release includes support for the CACE
Technologies Wireless AirPcap Adapters, the first open
and affordable solution for Wi-Fi capture on the Windows
platform.
- Full details of the changes can be found in the
change log.
As always, we profoundly thank all the users that tested
the development versions of WinPcap 4.0, it would not
have been possible without your help and precious
suggestions. Thanks!
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- 6 December, 2006
- WinPcap 4.0 beta3 is
available as of today in the
download section of the WinPcap
website.
- This new release includes some major cleanup to the code base
of
packet.dll aimed at having more stable and easily maintainable code. It also includes a more
coherent use of the tracing macros, as well as some bug
fixes related to AirPcap support and the use of
WinPcap in conjunction with some VPN clients.
Moreover, starting from this release, the support for
Windows 95/98/ME has been dropped.
Full details can be found in the
changelog.Being a beta release, as usual we encourage people to
test it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to
the
WinPcap mailing lists.
The final release of WinPcap 4.0 is expected to
be available by the end of January 2007.
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- 20 October, 2006
- WinPcap 4.0 beta2 is available
as of today in the
download
section of the WinPcap website.
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- This release fixes a bug in the capture driver that
could cause a system crash when setting a new filter or
changing the kernel buffer size.
- This build also includes the official version of libpcap
v0.9.5 available on the tcpdump website.
- Full details can be found in the
changelog.
- Being a beta release, as usual we encourage people to test
it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to the
WinPcap mailing lists.
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- 29 August, 2006
- "8 Absolutely Cool, Totally
Free Utilities". This is the title of one of the articles in
the last issue of the WindowsITPro magazine, which reviews
some of the best tools for the IT professionals. What's
pretty interesting is that all the tools our team develops
(WinDump, Wireshark/Ethereal and WinPcap) are part of the
list.
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- You can read the online version of the article
here.
- 23 August, 2006
- CACE Technologies is happy to
announce the release of the AirPcap Wireless Capture Adapter
for Windows.
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- AirPcap is the first open, affordable and easy to deploy
WLAN (802.11b/g) packet capture solution for the Windows
platform. AirPcap comes as a USB 2.0 adapter, and it's been
fully integrated with WinPcap and Wireshark: it enables you
to capture and analyze low-level 802.11b/g wireless traffic,
including control frames, management frames and power
information.
AirPcap supports the following operating systems: Windows
2000, Windows XP 32 and 64 bit, Windows Server 2003 32 and
64 bit.
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- More details can be found at:
http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm.
- Press Release:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb428512.htm.
- 23 August, 2006
- WinPcap 4.0 beta1 is available
as of today in the
download
section of the WinPcap website.
This release addresses some bugs in WinPcap 4.0 alpha1
reported by our users (problems sending OID requests to the
WinPcap driver, and empty packets while capturing from
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- This build also includes support for wireless capture
through the
CACE
Technologies AirPcap adapter, and a major rewriting of the
transmit capabilities exposed by pcap_send() and
pcap_inject().
Moreover, a deeper testing of the library on Vista Beta2 has
been performed.
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- Being a beta release, as usual we encourage people to test
it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to the
WinPcap mailing lists. Full details can be found in the
changelog.
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- 7 June, 2006
- Creator of Ethereal® joins the
WinPcap team; Wireshark is born.
We are proud to announce that Gerald Combs, creator of
Ethereal®, has joined CACE Technologies (www.cacetech.com).
He will be working with Loris Degioanni and Gianluca Varenni,
the creators of the WinPcap packet capture library (www.winpcap.org),
forming a world-class team of network analysis experts. As
his first venture in this new alliance, Gerald has created
the Wireshark network protocol analyzer, a successor to
Ethereal®.
Wireshark's home is
www.wireshark.org. Enhanced and improved, Wireshark is
the ultimate tool of choice for network troubleshooting,
protocol development, and education worldwide. The unique
partnership of Wireshark and WinPcap brings a new synergy,
power, and benefits to the open-source community and
industry. The upcoming version of Wireshark will be 0.99.1.
A pre-release version is available right now at
www.wireshark.org.
"I am indebted to core development team of Ethereal® for
joining me to work on Wireshark. With their help and
contributions from the user community, we're set to continue
our success in building the world's leading open-source
network protocol analyzer. We have lots of new and exciting
things planned for Wireshark! I'm also really excited about
joining CACE. Loris and Gianluca are well respected in the
community, and it will be great to work with them. As an
added bonus, Davis is a great place for my wife and me to
raise our daughter," said Gerald.
"We’re thrilled to welcome Gerald to CACE Technologies and
expect to do great things together. The sky’s the limit,"
said Loris.
- 10 May, 2006
- WinPcap 4.0 alpha1 is available
from today in the
download
section of the WinPcap website.
- This release includes major changes to several modules
in the Windows NTx driver. This effort is aimed at improving
the reliability of WinPcap when an adapter is disabled or
"repaired" while a WinPcap-based application is running, and
was prompted by a number of system crash reports from our
users. This extensive rewriting is the main reason why we
decided to move to version 4.0.
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- This new release of WinPcap has been
thoroughly tested internally. However, due to the extensive
modifications to the kernel driver code, we feel that a
testing period from the WinPcap community is necessary to
guarantee a level of stability comparable with WinPcap 3.1.
We encourage everyone to play with this new version and
report any problems on the various WinPcap mailing lists.
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- More details can be found in the
changelog.
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- 7 February, 2006
- CACE Technologies releases The
Network Toolkit!
The Network Toolkit is a collection of WinPcap and
non-WinPcap based system security and network tools, that
can run from CD or USB pen drive without any installation.
You can learn more about it from the
CACE
Technologies website. -
- 6 February, 2006
- The website has been partially reorganized and improved. Now
we have a "developers" section where programmers can
download the developer's pack and the sources, and access
the documentation.
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- 18 December, 2005
- WinPcap 3.2 alpha1 is
available from today in the
download
section of the website. This is the first version of
WinPcap that includes the long-awaited support for the
x86-64 platforms, for the moment in experimental version.
More details can be found in the
changelog.
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- 23 August, 2005
- We added to the website a page
with some simple JavaScript applets that automate recurrent
bandwidth and frame rate conversions for Ethernet networks.
Developers of network tools may find them useful. The
address is
http://www.winpcap.org/misc/calculators.htm.
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- 11 August, 2005
- Your wireless card doesn't
work properly with WinPcap? The
AirSnare website contains a
video that shows how to get the packets from it by using
the bridging feature of Windows.
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- 5 August,
2005
- After more than two years of hard work, the
final version of WinPcap 3.1 is available from today in the
download section of the WinPcap website. This new
release represents an important milestone for the project:
major improvements and bug fixes have been carried out
during this long period of time, and the result is the most
stable and reliable version of WinPcap in its history.
Thanks to all the users that contributed to this result by
submitting bug reports and thoroughly testing the several
betas that were made available.
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- 13 July, 2005
- The WinPcap website has been
enriched with a new project: NTAR, the Network Trace
Archival and Retrieval library. NTAR is planned to become
the new standard for network trace files, and has a lot of
cool improvements compared to the existing libpcap format.
More information can be found at
http://www.winpcap.org/ntar/.
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12 July, 2005
- A new mailing list, winpcap-announce@winpcap.org,
has been created. winpcap-announce is a low volume,
moderated list for announcements about WinPcap. Users can
subscribe through the
mailman interface.
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12 July, 2005
- A couple of search boxes has been
added to the
mailing lists page. They can be
used to look for information on the mailing list archives.
- 2 June, 2005
- Japanese programmers will be happy to
know that TeleBusiness, Inc has just released a
Japanese translation of the WinPcap 3.0 manual.
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5 May, 2005
- The WinPcap project is born to a new
life. The Netgroup
at the Politecnico di Torino
retired from this project, but a new WinPcap team has been
formed in order to continue the development and support of
WinPcap. This is the complete
announcement.
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4 November, 2004
- The beta4 of WinPcap 3.1 is available from today in the
download section.
WinPcap 3.1 beta4 is a minor update, that fixes several
bugs and leaks reported by our users after the release of
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- 15 May, 2004
- The beta3 of
WinPcap 3.1 is available from today in the
download section.
WinPcap 3.1 beta3 is a minor update, that fixes a
couple of bugs present in beta2, that prevented it to work
on Windows 9x.
- 3 May, 2004
- The beta2 of WinPcap 3.1 is available from today in the
download section.
WinPcap 3.1 beta2 is a minor update, that fixes a number of
bugs that were present in the first beta.
There's a new
feature, too: under 2000/XP/2003 we have added a new fake
NdisWan adapter, useful to capture LCP/NCP PPP packet, for
example. This adapter is always listed (if you have enough
privileges), even if you don't have any PPP/VPN/...
connection established. Please note that this feature is
experimental, and that we will be glad to hear comments from
people that use it.
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February, 2004
- The beta of WinPcap 3.1 is available from
today in the download section.
- WinPcap 3.1 beta is a main update, with
a good number of bug fixes and new features. The most
important is the support for NdisWan connections (dial-up
and VPN) by
means of the NetMon API. Please note that
this feature is experimental, and that we will be glad to
hear comments from people that use it. Another new
functionality is the support for Dag cards (http://www.endace.com),
based on the Windows Driver that Endace developed in
conjunction with the WinPcap team during 2003.
pcap_findalldevs() and pcap_findalldevs_ex() are now able,
under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, to return IPv6
addresses in addition to IPv4 ones.
Finally, several bugs
have been fixed.
- 16
September,
2003
- Two new papers are available in the
documentation
section.
The first one, Profiling and Optimization
of Software-Based Network-Analysis Applications,
contains a performance analysis of WinPcap and the
description of some solutions adopted to improve its
efficiency. The second one,
WinPcap: una libreria open source per l'analisi di rete,
is a description of the architecture of WinPcap with some
performance evaluation, written in Italian language.
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13 June, 2003
- WinPcap 3.01 alpha is available from today
here. It contains also an
updated documentation.
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- 10 April, 2003
- WinPcap 3.0 final is available from today in the
download section.
In
includes a new documentation, which is available online
here. It contains a complete user's manual, several
samples, a tutorial and a complete documentation of
Winpcap internals and remote capture.
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- 10 February, 2003
- The beta of WinPcap 3.0 is available from today in the
download section. The main
improvements of this release are:
- - experimental support for SMP machines
- - kernel buffering rewritten from scratch
- - experimental support for remote capture.
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- 22 October, 2002
- WinPcap 3.0 alpha 4 is available in the
download section. It fixes
a bug in the driver that caused a blue screen when stopping
or uninstalling WinPcap.
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- 7 October, 2002
- A third alpha of WinPcap 3.0 is available from today
under the download section.
Its main purpose is to fix a bug that caused an unhandled
exception error with all winpcap-based applications under
NT4/2K/XP.
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- 20 September, 2002
- A second alpha of WinPcap 3.0 is available from today
under the download section.
Its main purpose is to fix some bugs that were found by the
users.
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- 9 August, 2002
- The alpha of WinPcap 3.0 is available from today in the
download section of the site.
Version 3.0, whose goal is to be the most efficient and
complete among public packet capture systems, is one of the
most remarkable improvements in the history of WinPcap. See
the change log for a list
of the new features, and give us feedback on the
winpcap-users mailing list.
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- 9 August, 2002
- The new WinPcap documentation is available in the
developer's pack. It is the most comprehensive reference for
WinPcap programmers. It covers the whole API and the
internals of WinPcap and it is updated to version 3.0,
including the new functions introduced in this version. A
tutorial with a lot of samples is included as well. The
documentation was created using the doxygen tool, so it is
completely browsable, from the high level functions to the
source code.
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- 13 May, 2002
- Updated the Windows CE version with the patches sent by
Joe Meilak. As usual, you can find it in the download
section.
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- 17 April, 2002
- An alpha version of WinPcap for Windows CE (with the
driver and packet.dll) has been added. It was kindly
provided by Navin Pai. You can download it
heree.
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- 28 March, 2002
- WinPcap 2.3 was released today. An updated developer's
pack is available too.
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- 28 March, 2002
- The WinPcap web site has moved from
http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap
to http://winpcap.polito.it. Please update your bookmarks.
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- 28 March, 2002
- WinPcap has now a public mailing list. Go to
http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm
if you want subscribe.
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- 20 September, 2001
- WinPcap 2.3 beta is available. As usual, the changes can
be found in the
change log.
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- 30 July, 2001
- WinPcap 2.2 is available. The changes can be found in
the
change log.
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- 6 June, 2001
- The beta of WinPcap 2.2 has been released. WinPcap now
supports cygwin! Look
here at the new features.
The binary, the source code and the developer's pack are
available from the
download
page.
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- 26 March, 2001
- We created a wish list
on Amazon: now people that like our work can make us a gift.
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- 20 March, 2001
- After a quite long beta period, WinPcap 2.1 is now
available. See the change log
for the list of additions. The source code and the
developer's pack are also available.
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- 20 March, 2001
- The new Website is up. It contains the new binaries and
the updated documentation of WinPcap.
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