Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Re: Ethereal for win32

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:20:17 -0500
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:07:55PM -0500, guy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> In some places, I see things that *appear* to imply that they actually
> have a "libpcap" port - and that source to some or all of the stuff they
> did might be available.
> 
> However, I downloaded the NT driver part of it, and it comes with a
> driver and a DLL - and the names of the routines in the DLL suggest that
> it might be based on a sample driver and library supplied as part of the
> NT DDK, in which case
> 
>         1) it's not a "libpcap" port
> 
> and
> 
>         2) it's probably not redistributable in source form.
> 
> However, they might have implemented a "libpcap" *atop* that library.

http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/analyzer/Install/bin/sources.zip

contains the source of their libpcap implementation. I haven't looked
in detail to see how they did it, though.

--gilbert