On Jul 29, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Loris Degioanni wrote:
I hardly believe that the NPF device driver, one of the main components of
WinPcap, will be able to run in an operating system different from Windows.
Actually, I'd consider it a software miracle.
That's what it would be. Wine handles *userland* Windows code; as far as I know, it makes little, if any, attempt to handle *kernel* code such as the NPF drivers.
BTW, why do you need WinPcap on Linux?
To run closed-source or Windows-only-and-hard-to-port WinPcap-based applications?
There's already native support for libpcap on that platform.
...which, for the ambitious Wine hacker, could be the basis of a Wine wpcap.dll, to handle WinPcap APIs that are also in libpcap, or that could be implemented atop libpcap APIs, by forwarding them to the native libpcap.
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