GCIH · Question #203
Windump is a Windows port of the famous TCPDump packet sniffer available on a variety of platforms. In order to use this tool on the Windows platform a user must install a packet capture library…
The correct answer is C. WinPCap. WinDump, the Windows port of tcpdump, requires WinPCap to capture raw network packets because Windows does not natively expose a low-level packet capture interface to user-space applications.
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Windump is a Windows port of the famous TCPDump packet sniffer available on a variety of platforms. In order to use this tool on the Windows platform a user must install a packet capture library. What is the name of this library?
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- APCAP
- BSysPCap
- CWinPCap
- Dlibpcap
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WinDump, the Windows port of tcpdump, requires WinPCap to capture raw network packets because Windows does not natively expose a low-level packet capture interface to user-space applications.
PCAP is the generic file format and concept name for packet capture, not the name of the installable Windows library required by WinDump.
SysPCap does not exist as a real packet capture library; no such tool is part of the standard Windows or network security toolchain.
WinPCap (Windows Packet Capture) is the Windows-specific library that installs a kernel-level packet filter driver and exposes a user-level API for capturing raw network frames. WinDump depends entirely on WinPCap to access the network adapter at a low level, mirroring the role that libpcap plays on Unix and Linux systems.
libpcap is the packet capture library used on Unix and Linux platforms; the Windows-specific equivalent required by WinDump is WinPCap, not libpcap.
Concept tested: WinDump Windows packet capture library dependency WinPCap
Source: https://www.winpcap.org/
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