[hpsdr] Call for Comments and Discussion - OzyII

[Dan Quigley]

Hi Bill, I only saw the comment mentioning incomplete support for Vista and
Windows 7.  I'll ask around and see if I can help quantify/clarify that.  I
know there were some NDIS additions for those OS versions, but I am not
exactly sure what incomplete means in that context.  From the post you
pointed me to it seems there are Unix incompatible extensions to winpcap to
support sends.  I am not sure what that means to Linux users.

One thing is certain, with NDIS the idiosyncrasies with USB support won't be
a problem and winpcap is more mainstream from what I can tell.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Tracey [mailto:bill at ewjt.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 8:40 PM
To: Dan Quigley; 'Phil Harman'; hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Call for Comments and Discussion - OzyII

Hi Dan,

I was looking at Winpcap as well.  It looks like they're not quite 
compatible with Unix on the sending side - at least according to the 
comment @:
http://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs_40_2/html/group__wpcap__tut8.html

Have you seen any description on what limitations/issues they have on 
Vista and Win7?   I did not find much specific poking about their site.

Regards,

Bill

At 11:16 AM 7/18/2009, Dan Quigley wrote:
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>On the PC end of the connection, to access layer 2 data, we'll need
>something that speaks NDIS and can filter packets. Winpcap
(www.winpcap.org)
>is free, open bsd, and would be good enough, however, they don't quite yet
>have full featured support for Vista and Windows 7.  Code written for
>winpcap is fully compatible with libpcap, which eases Linux portability.
>There are also a ton of network tools and sniffers that use the winpcap
>libraries which could help during dev, debug and installation.
>
><...snip>
>
>Dan (N7HQ)




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