Re: Wireless adapter for new computer re TUNTAP

"Ivan Warren [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
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Le 6/15/2019 à 7:21 PM, ''Fish' (David B. Trout)' 
[email protected] [hercules-390] a écrit :
> Joe Monk wrote:
>
>> Most people arent using WinPCap anymore, its long been
>> out of maintenance, since 2013.
> True, but it still works and works quite well too in my experience (on all Windows systems that I am aware of too, including Windows 10), so there's no reason IMO to not continue using it.
>
>
>> Its been replaced by the new NPCap driver which uses
>> the NDIS 6 interfaces.
> I've heard of it, yes, but have never had the desire to ever try it.  As I said, WinPCap 4.13 works just fine so I see no need to try messing with NPCap.
>
>
>> It also has support for capturing 802.11 frames in monitor mode.
> 802.11 frames are not 802.3 frames.
>
> Further, while I have no idea whether CTCI, LCS and/or QETH (OSA) devices currently support 802.11 frames or not, I'm seriously doubting that they do.
>
> As far as I know, CTCI, LCS and QETH (OSA) devices were (and still are?) *wired* networking devices.  Thus WinPCap is the correct device driver for Hercules to use for such emulating such devices.

I'm going to say OpenVPN tun/tap (which is physical network agnostic)

But then again...

--Ivan




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