This software release contains some important security bug fixes to the kernel driver, as well as the update of libpcap to the 0.9.6 branch.
Also, it includes some major experimental fixes to the filter compilerto improve filtering over 802.11 networks. Finally this new version includes support for the Per Packet Info (PPI) encapsulation that will be available in the upcoming version of AirPcap. Full details can be found in the change log attached at the end of this message. Being a beta release, as usual we encourage people to test it and report any anomaly or strange behavior to the WinPcap mailing lists.
Gianluca Varenni WinPcap Team
Changelog from WinPcap 4.0.1 ============================ - Added support for the Per Packet Info (PPI) link type.- wpcap.dll has been updated to the libpcap 0.9.6 branch from http://www.tcpdump.org. - Bug fixing:
+ Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live() by which we were silently ignoringa failure when switching into promiscuous mode. This fix solves the outstanding issue of wireless cards that fail to go into promiscuous mode and do not capture any packet. + Experimental fixes to the BPF compiler (pcap_compile()) to better support filters over 802.11. + Minor fixes to remove several PFD (PreFAST for Drivers) warnings. + (from libpcap 0.9.6) added additional filter operations for 802.11 frame types + (from libpcap 0.9.6) fixes to discard unread packets when changing
filters. =========
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