Of WinPcap users that contributed to its success, CACE would have not existed in the first place. What will change are the additional resources that a bigger company as Riverbed can provide to make WinPcap better.ĬACE Technologies was co-founded by Loris Degioanni, the original creator of WinPcap. Keep running things in the same way you are all used to. I will remain the official maintainer of the project and
I expect very little changes in the WinPcap project. This acquisition willĬlose a circle started years ago at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, the place where WinPcap started. BPF and libpcap were created by Steve McCanne, co-founder and CTO of Riverbed. Giving birth to WinPcap and WinDump the two projects included the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) inside their coreĮngine. Both tcpdump and libpcap were therefore ported to the Microsoft operating system, On a computer network and this is definitely thrilling!Īs some of you already know, the WinPcap project started about 10 years ago because of the need to run The people working at Riverbed definitely know what happens Solutions and IT performance management products. Riverbed, located in beautiful San Francisco, CA, is a fast growing company that develops WAN optimization Sponsor and employer of part of the WinPcap team, has been acquired by Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD). It's a pleasure for me to announce that the WinPcap project just moved to a new bigger home. While we cannot say with certainty when the next release will be available, it will To the emails of our users, and to catch up on the development side as well. So what's the future of WinPcap? While we haven't done much recently, it's our intention to catch up on the support side by being more active in responding This transition hasīeen an exciting and rewarding experience, but has limited the amount of free time for WinPcap updates. 10 February, 2013Īs most of you know, the WinPcap project has been pretty much silent for quite some time: no releases, no emails from its developers, no announcements.įor the past 2 years, we've been extremely busy transitioning from the CACE startup environment to the much bigger reality of Riverbed. This release adds support for Windows 8 and Server 2012, and fixes a couple of security issues in the WinPcap driver that could cause an OS crash.įull details of the changes can be found in the change log. 8 March, 2013 As of today, WinPcap 4.1.3 isĪvailable in the download section of the WinPcap website. Gordon Lyon, Nmap project founder, has created Npcap, a packet capture library for Windows, that includes WinPcap compatibility and may be a suitable replacement for WinPcap and WinPcap Pro. While community support may persist, technical oversight by Riverbed staff, responses to questions posed by Riverbed resources, and bug reporting are no longer available. Your software or install it on more than 5 systems, check out Npcap OEM.15 September 2018 WinPcap, though still available for download (v4.1.3), has not seen an upgrade in many years and there are no road map/future plans to update the technology. Need more information? Check out our WinPcapįeature comparison, read through the Npcap Users That's written with WinPcap in mind, simply select "WinPcap API-compatible With Wireshark, Nmap, and more of your favorite tools already. Ready to give Npcap a try? Just download the latest installer. Npcap is WinPcap for modern Windows systemsīuilt on the tried-and-true WinPcap codebase, with a host of exciting newįeatures, and extensively tested with currently-supported versions of Windows, Npcap is under active development and continues to support the latest Windows networking features. Npcap is fully compliant, with its drivers tested and co-signed by Windalso introduced strict driver-signing requirements that WinPcapĬan't meet. Fortunately, the Nmap Project stepped upĪnd created Npcap, converting the original WinPcap code to the new NDIS 6 API, giving users a fastĪnd completely compatible alternative to WinPcap for Windows 10. Windows 10 was released without NDIS 5 support, WinPcap failed to keep up, For 14 years, WinPcap was the standard libpcap package for Windows.