The Minix-Bochs-WinPCap page

modified: 04 Mar 2004

-- from the WinPCap home page, http://winpcap.polito.it

WinDump is the porting to the Windows platform of tcpdump, the most used network sniffer/analyzer for UNIX. WinDump is fully compatible with tcpdump and can be used to watch and diagnose network traffic according to various complex rules. It can run under Windows 95/98/ME, and under Windows NT/2000/XP.

-- from the WinDump home page, http://windump.polito.it

Niclist lists the network interface cards that you can use in the "ethdev" field of the ne2k line in your bochsrc.

-- comment from the niclist.c source at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bochs/bochs/misc/

Bochs uses the WinPCap link libraries (dlls) to capture host system packets so they can be presented to the guest system via the simulated ethernet interface. WinPCap was developed for other purposes, probably its most important use is with WinDump, described above. So if you have any problems with WinPCap you'll probably want to test it with WinDump before reporting problems to the WinPCap developers. At the time of writing three versions of WinPCap were available:

• WinPCap 2.3 is the only one that worked correctly with the version of niclist.exe distributed with Bochs 2.1 and 2.1.1, as well as with Bochs itself.

• WinPCap 3.0 appears to work with the Bochs 2.1.1 niclist, although the output format is slightly different and the suggested ne2k line for the .bxrc file won't work without editing. And, in any case, Bochs 2.1.1 itself will not work properly with WinPCap 3.0 -- it will appear to start OK, but will eventually crash.

• WinPCap 3.1 beta doesn't work with either Bochs 2.1.1 or the niclist in the 2.1.1 package.

Both WinPCap and Bochs are constantly being debugged and improved. I will try to keep up with changes and update this page if the situation changes.