Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get "Malformed Packet" for 802.11 Beacon frames on Windows

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 12, 2016, at 10:07 PM, Yang Luo <hsluoyb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As you know, Npcap/WinPcap is currently based on libpcap 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b (20091008), which is a very old version.
> Adding features to so old wpcap.dll code will put me even farther away from the libpcap trunk.

Only if you're adding features to libpcap code.

The APIs to turn monitor mode on and off are in libpcap 1.0, so you won't need to change the libpcap code for that.