Thanks ;) If you would like to contribute, you can pick some book from our wishlist (http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/wlist.htm) or you can donate us some hardware!
GV (WinPcap team) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Munk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:08 AM Subject: [WinPcap-users] Success! > It seems like people are mainly reporting problems here. Let me report some > success. > > My company is making battery testers and the tester HW has some 188 > microcontrollers which are communicating with the PC program over a standard > LAN cable and net adapter by "raw packets". In the past the NE2000 was state > of the arts and PC-code was developed to talk to directly to NE2000 > compatible chips. First version was written in assembler, then my > predecessor started to rewrite it in PowerBasic which I completed and then > once again I converted it to Delphi. All together it has been working very > successfully and all our equipment is based on this inexpensive and reliable > communication. However, NE2000 adapter are 10MBit only and normally bound to > the ISA slot - all getting rapidly obsolete, so something had to be done. > > We have been considering conversion boxes so we could let the PC "speak" UDP > (our protocol happens to be rather similar to UDP with a simpler header) and > let the controller board code as it is, but it would have been an expensive, > slow and complicated solution to something that obviously should be done in > SW. So in a last minute internet search before the kick off meeting of the > conversion box, I ran into the WinPCap that came as sent from heaven. With a > little help from Loris - thanks a LOT! - and after getting a couple of bugs > fixed it works very well. The main application is written in VB6 (yak!) but > the LAN stuff was already in a Delphi DLL, then I found some Delphi wrappers > for the PacketDLL and it is now all bundled up and works remarkably well. In > fact it is a little faster than the original very simple direct chip > communication in some cases. And most important: It works with any net > adapter that windows will know of on any windows from 98 to XP. > > Thanks for a brilliant job - I wish you all the best! > > Jens Munk. > > >
