Does WinPcap work in connection with personal firewalls?
We got several reports saying that WinPcap does not work well if a personal firewall is installed on the same machine as WinPcap. The typical problem is the impossibility to capture all or part of the traffic from an adapter, but some users reported strange behaviors (like some packets disappearing) on the transmit side too. Most of the times, the problem is caused by non-standard interactions between the firewall and the network stack of the OS, so there not a lot to do on our side; the suggested remedy consists in uninstalling the firewall. Note: uninstalling, and not disabling, because some firewalls (like ZoneAlarm) keep having strange behaviors even when they are disabled. Q-11: When I capture on Windows in promiscuous mode, I can see packets other than those sent to or from my machine; however, those packets show up with a “Short Frame” indication, unlike packets to or from my machine. What should I do to arrange that I see those packets in their entirety? A: In at least some cas
