WinPcap does not bypass the OS. It bypasses the TCP/IP stack. WinPcap is a protocol driver and sits in parallel with the TCP/IP protocol driver. It communicates with the NICs through their drivers using NDIS (which is the standard networking infrastructure on Windows). Figure 2 of the ISCC paper.
Have a nice day GV From: Bilal Shahid Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Winpcap-users] Risk related to using winPcap in place of > Do you have any reason to believe that if you implement your own protocol (or > re-implement existing protocols) you will actually reduce latency?It bypasses > OS and transport and application layer by going directly to wire is the > reason why I think it will reduce latency. These two articles on wincap.org also imply the same http://www.winpcap.org/docs/WinPcap-SBAC03.pdf http://www.winpcap.org/docs/iscc01-wpcap.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users
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