

Some of these networking tools, like Wireshark, Nmap, Snort, and ntop are known and used throughout the networking community. Thanks to its set of features, WinPcap has been the packet capture and filtering engine for many open source and commercial network tools, including protocol analyzers, network monitors, network intrusion detection systems, sniffers, traffic generators and network testers. This library also contains the Windows version of the well-known libpcap Unix API. 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 low-level network layers.

Remote capturing on a Windows OS requires WinPcap tool installation. Remote packet capture on a Windows operating system We will discover how to capture packets remotely in this article. There are many packet capture methods, such as local, remote, network (Tap, SPAN) and so on.
