[Full-Disclosure] Libpcap versus WINPcap

Taylor, Stephen STEPHEN.TAYLOR at saic.com
Thu Feb 3 18:00:23 GMT 2005


Does anyone have experience with libpcap versus WINPcap from a performance
standpoint?  I don't have packet numbers but I don't want to drop any.  I
know how to use libpcap without the tcp/ip stack but how about WINPcap?
Since it is a protocol I don't think it works the same way.  Does any know
of any other Windows solutions for logging all the traffic (except video) on
a network.  I may have to recommend Windows over Linux to my client, if the
performance is ok.
Steve Taylor




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