On Sep 5, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Pascal Quantin <pas...@wireshark.org> wrote:
>
> Le jeu. 5 sept. 2019 à 19:40, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keu...@xs4all.nl> a écrit :
>> So, are the new maintenance releases pending on yet another Npcap release?
>> Noticed that Npcap 0.9983 was just release today.
>
> I will update our bundled Npcap (as usual) but like last time I wait a bit to
> ensure that no blocking bug appears in their bug tracker right after the
> release.
See bug 14101
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14101
and bug 15575
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15575
both of which should be addressed by 0.9983. 0.9983 also apparently does
loopback capture in a different fashion:
Loopback capture and injection no longer requires the Npcap Loopback
Adapter to be installed. This is a minor API change, so Nmap 7.80 and earlier
will still require the adapter to do localhost scans, but Wireshark and most
other software will not require changes. Loopback capture uses the device name
NPF_Loopback instead of NPF_{GUID}, where GUID has to be looked up in the
Registry. The Npcap Loopback Adapter can still be installed by selecting
"Legacy loopback support" in the installer or using the /loopback_support=yes
command-line option. The LoopbackSupport Registry value will always be
0x00000001.
Somebody claims, in this Q&A question:
https://ask.wireshark.org/question/11356/loopback-npcap-added-in-win10-network/
that the loopback adapter is causing a problem, although I don't understand
what the problem is ("The reason we have to disable it, it is showing APIPA
169.254.x.x and therefore affecting my Image program Storagecraft Image Manager
which points to 127.0.0.1"? The Npcap Loopback Adapter isn't showing a normal
loopback address, it's showing a non-loopback APIPA-assigned address, and
that's somehow breaking normal network access to the local host using the
loopback address?), so maybe that will fix that issue as well.
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