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bcmwlpkt.dll
WinPcap low level packet library by CACE Technologies
Version: | 3, 1, 0, 27 |
MD5: | 4df537a09034434ea9481b88ab1d3c25 |
SHA1: | 593e62d622dbef8f8c7a83f8543858ceb95af298 |
SHA256: | 0628922dda8e170e013f66d7d1ec03eaed2af366bf4cfcdddc6a5b8552784a36 |
What is bcmwlpkt.dll?
WinPcap allows applications to capture and transmit network packets and consists of a driver, that extends the operating system to provide low-level network access, and a library that is used to easily access the low-level network layers. WinPcap comes with Remote Capture capabilities.This requires a remote daemon (called rpcapd) which performs the capture and sends data back and a local client that sends the appropriate commands and receives the captured data.
About bcmwlpkt.dll (from CACE Technologies)
“WinPcap is the industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments: it allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack, and has additional useful features, including kernel-level packet filtering, a network statistics engine and support for remote packet capture. WinPcap consists of a driver, that extends the operating system to provide low-level network access, and a library that is used to easily access the low-level network layers. This library also contains the Windows version of the well known libpcap Unix API. WinPcap extends the standard WinPcap code in such a way that all WinPcap-based tools can expoit remote capture capabilities. For instance, the capabillity to interact with a remote daemon are added to the client software without any explicit modification to it. Vice versa, the remote daemon must be explicitely installed (and configured) on the remote machine.”
Details
File name: | bcmwlpkt.dll |
Publisher: | CACE Technologies |
Product name: | WinPcap low level packet library |
Description: | Packet |
Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\bcmwlpkt.dll |
Original name: | Packet.dll |
File version: | 3, 1, 0, 27 |
Size: | 68 KB (69,632 bytes) |
Digital DNA |
PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
File packed: | No |
.NET CLR: | No |
More details
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Microsoft Windows XP |
85.71% |
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Windows 7 Home Premium |
14.29% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 71.43% of WinPcap low level packet library.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
PC Manufacturer | distribution |
Dell |
66.67% |
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Lenovo |
22.22% |
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Hewlett-Packard |
11.11% |
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