Re: Wireless adapter for new computer re TUNTAP

Most people arent using WinPCap anymore, its long been out of maintenance,
since 2013.

Its been replaced by the new NPCap driver which uses the NDIS 6 interfaces.

It also has support for capturing 802.11 frames in monitor mode.

https://nmap.org/npcap/vs-winpcap.html

Joe

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 3:18 AM ''Fish' (David B. Trout)'
[email protected] [hercules-390] <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Joe Reichman wrote:
>
> > would anyone know if the following wireless adapter
> > works with tuntap/winpcap intel Killer AX1650
>
> Anyone who had bothered to read the "Wireless Networking" section of the
> "Common Problems" chapter of the CTCI-WIN product Help file would know:
>
> "Wireless Networking"
>
> "CTCI-WIN does not work with wireless network adapters.
> This is a limitation of the WinPCap device driver
> which only supports 802.3 format packets."
>
> "Wireless adapters send and receive 802.11 format packets
> which are completely different. Wireless adapters are
> completely different hardware devices from wired adapters,
> and device drivers for one type of hardware obviously
> cannot be used for the other type."
>
> "You can still wirelessly connect to Hercules for 3270
> terminal access for example, but you cannot use your
> wireless adapter for Hercules networking (i.e. you cannot
> use your wireless adapter for your e.g. Hercules CTCI
> or LCS or QETH/OSA devices)."
>
> "If you have both types of network adapters on your computer
> you also need to make sure the wired adapter is bound ahead
> of your wireless adapter (i.e. your wired adapter needs to
> come before your wireless adapter in Windows's network
> adapter binding order). To change the binding order of your
> network adapters please refer to the instructions provided
> in the "Change the binding order of your adapters" chapter."
>
> "If you are running Windows 10 however, the adapter binding
> order cannot be changed so you must instead define a default
> CTCI-WIN adapter as explained in the "Defining a default
> CTCI-WIN adapter" chapter."
>
> --
> "Fish" (David B. Trout)
> Software Development Laboratories
> http://www.softdevlabs.com
> mail: [email protected]
>
> 
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