This is excellent. Thanks for the quick response!

On 8/30/07, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Zeeple wrote:
> > Does anyone know what happens when ws is installed in terms of the
> > existing nic driver?  Is it replaced?  Is it modified?
>
> No, and no.
>
> The answer to "Is it left alone?" is "yes".
>
> Wireshark will install WinPcap, but that doesn't replace existing
> network adapter drivers, either.  It does install a driver, but that's
> not a network adapter driver, it's a driver that plugs into the same
> framework that network adapter drivers plug into (NDIS), so that
> WinPcap's driver can connect to the network adapter and receive packets
> from it.
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