[GSoC Things] Want to make wpcap.dll become more usable on wine

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 22:37:21 CST 2016


On Feb 16, 2016 10:35 PM, "Jianqiu Zhang" <zhangjianqiu_133 at yeah.net> wrote:
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> At 2016-02-16 04:54:05, "André Hentschel" <nerv at dawncrow.de> wrote:
> >Am 15.02.2016 um 03:44 schrieb Jianqiu Zhang:
> >> Hi,
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> >Hi,
> >
> >thanks for your proposal.
> >comments below
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> >> I am working on improving and implementing more functions for
wpcap.dll on wine
> >> wpcap is the Windows version of pcap, Packet Capture Library for
wireshark and other network analyzing software,
> >> I have done some research on it, In wine we cannot use the windows
kernel driver, but winpcap actually use it, so
> >> I follow the wine wpcap code and try to add more wrapper to wpcap,
Here is the patch I' ve submitted and was add
> >> to wine-staging,
https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/tree/master/patches/wpcap-Several_Fixes
> >> One of the most difficult point is , there aren't many applications
using wpcap.dll, I cannot found plenty of them,
> >> According to fracting(Hong Qian) 's suggestions, Dr.com , a Client for
many Chinese university students to gain access to cernet
> >> uses wpcap, If wpcap.dll can improved to make it available for Dr.Com
, maybe many university
> >> students using Linux can gain access to cernet. I will try to improve
wpcap.dll in two different ways:
> >> 1. Use wine wpcap.dll , and write wrappers
> >
> >I didn't know that there's something missing for running Dr.com, could
you please elaborate?
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> In fact my school doesn't use drcom to gain access to cernet. But I get a
drcom client from my friend and it cannot run on wine,
> But I am not sure whether this dr com need wpcap or not, If I found what
is missing , I will email to devel to mention , Do you think it's useful
> to add a bug report to wine, even when run this program(drcom) on wine
dosen't produce any err output?

If the application works on windows and not wine, yes, file a bug.
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