[WinPcap-users] Performance impact of WinPCAP installation

2004-08-13 Thread Andrew Athan
We have a high performance (milliseconds count) server on which I'd like to install WinPCAP to capture some system interactions. Doing the capture externally to the machine is not feasible at this time. However, I am hesitate to install WinPCAP for fear that its kernel packet driver might

Re: [WinPcap-users] Performance impact of WinPCAP installation

2004-08-13 Thread Loris Degioanni
The WinPcap driver does a per-capture-instance binding on the underlying networking architecture. This means that if you are not capturing, WinPcap is not connected to the flow of packets in the networking stack, at all. When you capture, the WinPcap driver is seen by the system as a protocol, so

Re: [WinPcap-users] xp service pack 2 and winpcap3.1 beta 3

2004-08-13 Thread Steve Ericson
Possibly unrelated information: I tested Wincap 3.1 beta3 on windows server 2003 and was dropping about 50% of packets... vs no loss at all for 3.0. Machine was brand new Dell P4 2.8GHz. +Steve - Original Message - From: terry braun [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [WinPcap-users] xp service pack 2 and winpcap3.1 beta 3

2004-08-13 Thread Gianluca Varenni
I haven't tried Service pack 2, yet. What problems are you encountering? Have a nice day GV - Original Message - From: terry braun [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: [WinPcap-users] xp service pack 2 and winpcap3.1 beta 3 Does