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Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Windows Packet Capture routines

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:07:39 -0800 (PST)
> I have looked at the WinDump code a bit more.  It os GPL'd and contains
> code to do packet capture at the NDIS level for both Win95 and WinNT.

As I remember:

	it includes an NDIS driver to do the low-level capturing, and a
	library atop it;

	said driver looked as if it were derived from sample code
	supplied by Microsoft with, I think, one of the Windows NT DDKs.

If so, there could be copyright/licensing issues with that code....