hope to support NPcap by improving WinPcap's DLL searching logic

[Yang Luo <hsluoyb () gmail com>]

Hi list,

I'm developing NPcap, an alternative to original WinPcap but with more
features like NDIS 6 support and others. NPcap is supposed to support Nmap,
Wireshark and so on just like WinPcap did and follow the same DLL interface
with WinPcap. NPcap can coexist with WinPcap, so we decide to install
NPcap's DLLs (also wpcap.dll and packet.dll) to another directory than
system32 (which is used by WinPcap) and let PATH environment variable point
to it. However, after I did some research I found that Wireshark seems to
search wpcap.dll only in 1) its installation folder; 2) system32. As it is,
NPcap's DLLs can't be found by Wireshark. I wonder if Wireshark could just
use LoadLibrary() to load wpcap.dll without specifying its path? So that
Windows DLL loader could automatically target NPcap's wpcap.dll by
searching PATH when WinPcap is unavailable. And then the end user will have
another choice besides WinPcap when using Wireshark. Thanks!

NPcap is currently hosted at github as belows for your information:
https://github.com/nmap/npcap


Regards,
Yang

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