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  • [Update] Npcap 1.86

    From Allan Higdon@allanh@vivaldi.net to alt.comp.freeware on Thu Jan 8 08:58:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.freeware

    "Npcap is the Nmap Project's packet capture (and sending) library for Microsoft Windows. It implements the open Pcap API using a custom Windows kernel driver alongside our Windows build of the excellent libpcap library. This allows Windows software to capture raw network traffic (including wireless networks, wired ethernet, localhost traffic, and many VPNs) using a simple, portable API. Npcap allows for sending raw packets as well.

    Mac and Linux systems already include the Pcap API, so Npcap allows popular software such as Nmap and Wireshark to run on all these platforms (and more) with a single codebase.
    Npcap began in 2013 as some improvements to the (now discontinued) WinPcap library, but has been largely rewritten since then with hundreds of releases improving Npcap's speed, portability, security, and efficiency."

    Home Page
    https://npcap.com/

    Release Notes
    https://github.com/nmap/npcap/releases/
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  • From John C.@r9jmg0@yahoo.com to alt.comp.freeware on Sun Jan 11 06:52:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.freeware

    Allan Higdon wrote:
    "Npcap is the Nmap Project's packet capture (and sending) library for Microsoft Windows. It implements the open Pcap API using a custom
    Windows kernel driver alongside our Windows build of the excellent
    libpcap library. This allows Windows software to capture raw network
    traffic (including wireless networks, wired ethernet, localhost traffic,
    and many VPNs) using a simple, portable API. Npcap allows for sending
    raw packets as well.

    Mac and Linux systems already include the Pcap API, so Npcap allows
    popular software such as Nmap and Wireshark to run on all these
    platforms (and more) with a single codebase.
    Npcap began in 2013 as some improvements to the (now discontinued)
    WinPcap library, but has been largely rewritten since then with hundreds
    of releases improving Npcap's speed, portability, security, and
    efficiency."

    Home Page
    https://npcap.com/

    Release Notes
    https://github.com/nmap/npcap/releases/

    Thanks, Allan. I always like to keep this one up to date.
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