WinPcap: the Free Packet Capture Architecture for Windows


Last modified: Monday, March 26, 2001 10.48

Credits

Contributors:

  • Loris Degioanni, the main programmer. He developed WinPcap, ported libpcap and tcpdump on Windows, wrote the documentation.
  • Fulvio Risso, the supervisor, bug-checker, beta tester, programmer....
  • Piero Viano, who started this project. The work has been done as part of its graduation thesis at the Politecnico di Torino  
  • Packets capture device driver, in its first release:
    • Windows NT: Gianpiero Alberelli and Fabio Magliano
    • Windows 95: Antonio Lantieri and Giovanni Meo

WinPcap is a pacekt capture library that exports a set of functions that are libpcap compatible. Libpcap is a network capture library developed by Network Research Group (NRG) of the Information and Computing Sciences Division (ICSD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California.

WinPcap includes software developed by the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and its contributors (Copyright notice).

Thanks to Microsoft Research, which sponsored this work.