[Winpcap-users] WinPcap 4 Beta to Stable date

[Gianluca Varenni]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: George S. Lockwood 
  To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] WinPcap 4 Beta to Stable date


  Thanks Gianluca!

  Yes it does answer my question.

  The only feedback I have is that 4.0 seems to handle the case where a NIC is disabled or removed from a system while winpcap is using it (3.1 results in a BSoD). 

Yeah, that bug was fixed between 3.2alpha1 and 4.0alpha1 (that's one of the reasons why we bumped from 3.2 to 4.0).

Have a nice day
GV
   


  RE: Vista Reviews.  That just meant how is WinPCap working on Vista boxes?  Your answer seems that it works fairly well, the NetMon issue aside.

  I believe I tried installing the wpa_supplicant with winpcap onto a Vista system and an error appeared when -I suspect- Winpcap was trying to load.  BUT I'm not positive it was a 4.0 version or 3.1....I'll try 4.0 for sure and see what happens.


  Thanks so much!

  george

  On 11/21/06, Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni at cacetech.com > wrote:
  >       
  >  
  > George, 
  >   
  > we are planning to have a new beta within a couple of weeks,  and then have WinPcap 4.0 stable in mid-january, in any case no later than end  of january. 
  >   
  > The new beta (beta3) will contain some bug fixes related to  AirPcap support, better support for Vista, and a major "polishing" of  packet.dll. This last task was carried on to guarantee an easier maintenance of  the code and have a more coherent tracing system for this DLL.   
  >   
  > Moreover, starting from this new beta, we will completely drop  support for Windows 9x/ME. The latest version supporting Win9x/ME will be  WinPcap 3.1 (stable) or WinPcap 4.0beta2 (unstable). 
  >   
  > In general we determine when a beta goes stable from a number  of factors, among which feedback from the users and features and fixes that we  want to push into WinPcap (e.g. the support for AirPcap adapters that was added  this summer). For example, the main reason for this beta3 is basically the  "polishing operation" in packet.dll, that could have introduced some minor bugs  and glitches. 
  >   
  > Related to Vista, I don't know exactly what you mean "Vista  reviews". I know there are already users playing with WinPcap on Vista, and no  specific problems have been reported on this platform. The major headache so far  is that NetMon (the Microsoft network sniffer component) is not shipped as  part of Vista, so WinPcap is not able to sniff on dialup and VPN  connections on this new release of the OS. 
  >   
  > I hope this answers your questions. 
  >   
  > Have a nice day 
  > GV 
  >   
  > 
  >    
  > ----- Original Message -----    
  > From:    George S.    Lockwood    
  > To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org    
  > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 4:48    PM   
  > Subject: [Winpcap-users] WinPcap 4 Beta    to Stable date   
  > 
  > Hello, 
  > 
  > Is there    a projected date for WinPcap 4 Beta to go Stable (no longer considered a beta    product)?
  > 
  > How do you determine when a beta goes    stable?
  > 
  > 
  > Separate question: 
  > What are the Vista reviews?    
  > 
  > thanks so much,
  > 
  > george
  >    
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