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ETHER: Update preferred Windows packet capture to be WinPcap

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- Npcap is not currently a superset of WinPcap.  Specifically it doesn't
  allow traffic from simulators to the host system to be received by the
  host system network stack.

As discussed in nmap/nmap#1929 and nmap/nmap#1343
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Mark Pizzolato 2020-02-22 19:07:01 -08:00
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@ -218,9 +218,11 @@ Note: As mentioned above, NAT networking is specifically capable of providing
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Windows notes:
1. The Windows-specific code uses the WinPCAP 4.x package from
http://www.winpcap.org. This package for windows simulates the libpcap
package that is freely available for un*x systems.
1. The Windows-specific code uses the WinPCAP 4.1.3 package from
https://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WinPcap_4_1_3.exe. This package
for windows simulates the libpcap package that is freely available for
un*x systems. The Npcap package does not currently allow simulators
to exchange packets with the host system while WinPcap does.
2. You must *install* the WinPCAP runtime package.