What are the different functions available for opening and closing capture devices?

Apr 15, 2009 ... It appears that c:\program files\WinPcap does have legitimate uses, from what I can see - for monitoring remote network traffic. WinPcap has been recognized as the industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments. The driver needs to be running whenever you're capturing traffic; most of the time that means it gets started once per boot. Nov 28, 2016 ... WinPCap is used to manage FS116E and JFS524E switches only. If you are not managing FS116E or JFS524E switches, ignore the message. Jan 14, 2012 ... It is used to monitor network traffic by programs such as Wireshark. I know it's not installed as part of Malwarebytes (free version) and I ... Npcap and WinPcap are Windows versions of the libpcap library. One of them must be installed in order to capture live network traffic on Windows. Npcap supports ... WINPCAP function. Returned is a list of pcap_if structures with an internal name and human readable description of the device. pcap_open_live(), shown in ... Jan 5, 2014 ... WinPcap is a service (but mainly a driver), named NetGroup Packet Filter Driver. The fact is that it cannot be seen in the Windows Services Manager. Uninstall WinPcap, if it was installed. Install Npcap with the following options: loopback_support=no & winpcap_mode=yes. If using the GUI installer ... Looking at the program's installed folder, it was running with rpcapd.exe, both apparently made by the same company. The linked site has a comment that mentions ...