3

WinPCap packet sniffer for commercial development

 2 years ago
source link: https://techteapot.com/posts/winpcap-packet-sniffer-for-commercial-development/
Go to the source link to view the article. You can view the picture content, updated content and better typesetting reading experience. If the link is broken, please click the button below to view the snapshot at that time.
neoserver,ios ssh client

WinPCap packet sniffer for commercial development

Jack Hughes
2007-09-05

WinPCap is a great Windows based, open source driver for packet sniffing wire-based networks using a bog standard network interface card. WinPCap is licensed under the General Public License (GPL).

From a commercial software developers perspective, the GPL can be quite intimidating. Consequently, a lot of commercial developers won’t touch GPL’ed code with a very long barge pole.

Fortunately, the developers of WinPCap have come up with a commercial developer friendly version of WinPCap, WinPCap Professional. Of course, you’ve got to pay, but as a commercial developer, you’re used to that! 😉

With WinPCap Professional you get an excellent packet sniffing library without the scary license and you get to support WinPCap open source development too. Everybody’s a winner!

Jack Hughes avatar
About Jack Hughes
An experienced software engineer with 20+ years experience writing products for Microsoft Windows based operating systems as well as 17+ years experience hosting websites on Linux and Windows including e-commerce and CMS systems.

Recommend

About Joyk


Aggregate valuable and interesting links.
Joyk means Joy of geeK