From 1725ed20db98108f145a10d1b9e92dd34a6a7ff1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Pizzolato Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 19:07:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ETHER: Update preferred Windows packet capture to be WinPcap - 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 --- 0readme_ethernet.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/0readme_ethernet.txt b/0readme_ethernet.txt index a5fb70ce..261680a9 100644 --- a/0readme_ethernet.txt +++ b/0readme_ethernet.txt @@ -218,9 +218,11 @@ Note: As mentioned above, NAT networking is specifically capable of providing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.