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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:08:49 -0800
Cresswell Nick-CRSN001 wrote:

As far as I understand winpcap is invoked when you run the 'capture' command
from within ethereal.
WinPcap is a library, so it's not invoked in the sense of being run as a program. It's used by Ethereal... 


I don't know if there's another way to capture packets withou using ethereal.


...and by other programs, such as WinDump:

	http://windump.polito.it/

and Analyzer:

	http://analyzer.polito.it/
and a variety of other programs, some ported from UN*X (WinPcap is a port of libpcap - the library used by many UN*X programs that capture packets, including Ethereal - including a driver that's needed to capture packets) and some written for Windows.