Re: Is Wireshark maintaining the official WinPcap repo now?

[Yang Luo <hsluoyb () gmail com>]

Thanks for info, Graham! It seems that WinPcap will view stability as the
primary goal. While as a Summer of Code project, NPcap will try to move as
fast as possible especially for these months. I am even planning to add
loopback packet capturing for NPcap and have made some progress these days,
and Wireshark will be a perfect tool to test this function. Given that it's
no short-term effort to migrating to trunk, as the ways Gerald suggested,
NPcap will choose the "Make NPcap obviously separate. Give it a separate
name and modify Wireshark to try to load it first." way. I will try to make
a patch for Wireshark to support NPcap recently.

Cheers,
Yang


On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
wrote:

> On 3 July 2015 at 17:29, Yang Luo <hsluoyb () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Since the last mail about how to make NPcap available for Wireshark, I
> > have been waiting for WinPcap's official repo's news and I fortunately
> > found this these days: https://github.com/wireshark/winpcap, is this the
> > official WinPcap repo now? If yes, then what's the review policy? Like
> > recently we have added the "Admin-only mode" into NPcap, it restricts the
> > capturing access only to Administrators for security purpose (see details
> > in: https://github.com/nmap/npcap and http://nmap.org/soc/#winpcap). I
> > don't know if the review party would like this idea? (and like other parts
> > of NPcap like current NDIS 6 implementation). And how hard would it be for
> > NPcap to be merged into WinPcap upstream? I noticed that this repo used
> > gerrit for code review and it is kind of strict system in my mind:)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Yang
> Hi,
>
> As discussed elsewhere, and at Sharkfest with Fyodor, the Wireshark
> project is now hosting the "official" WinPCap repo (
> https://code.wireshark.org/review/winpcap) and are using Gerrit for code
> reviews, etc.  The github repo is a read-only copy.  This repo is basically
> a dump from the internal Riverbed\Cace repo.
>
> The current "plan" is to make minimal changes to this code to get it
> compiling with a modern compiler (VS2013) and do whatever is necessary to
> make it run on Win 10.  XP support *might* be lost during this.  This will
> likely be WinPCap 4.1.4.
>
> After that all, things are up for consideration, including rewriting
> WinPCap for NDIS6, moving over to NPCap, synchronising with current
> libpcap, the security enhancement you mention etc.
>
>
> --
> Graham Bloice
>
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