$PROGRAMFILES64/WinPcap. Set $INSTDIR to $PROGRAMFILES/WinPcap or
$PROGRAMFILES64/WinPcap depending, but don't modify it if it already has a
value (from /D= on the command line). These changes make /D= work to install a
few files into an alternate directory.
before possibly changing it to 2 (SERVICE_AUTO_START) at the user's request.
This ensures that if the "Start NPF service at boot" option is unchecked, the
NPF service will not start at boot, even if WinPcap was previously installed
that way. The patch is by Rob Nicholls.
service 'NPF' at startup" box was unchecked and the "Start the
WinPcap service 'NPF' now" box was checked, the second checkbox
would be ignored (the service would not be started now). [Rob
Nicholls]
o UPgrades to latest version of WinPcap (4.1.1)
o corrects a long-standing bug in our WinPcap installer (we surrounded
the install path in the registry with double quotes, which meant we
wouldn't uninstall our older versions during an install)
o removed the GUI option to select where the WinPcap files are
installed (all of the important ones end up in the Windows directory
anyway). WinPcap folder is installed in the same Program Files
location on x64 platforms as the official WinPcap installer uses
(although we're not sure that is the best place)
o Rob notes that he's successfully tested the installer on XP SP3,
2003 SP2 x86, Vista SP2 x86 and Windows 7 x64
by the installer. Also notes that we recommend starting the WinPcap service at system startup for Windows 7 as well as vista. The patch is from Rob Nicholls.
npf (Winpcap) service during install/uninstall. Also the silent
install mode was improved to avoid a case where the Winpcap
uninstaller was (non-silently) shown. [Rob Nicholls]
o Our WinPcap installer now starts the NPF driver running as a
service immediately upon installation and after restarts. You can
disable this with new checkboxes. This behavior is important for
Vista and Windows Server 2008 machines when User Account
Control (UAC) is enabled. [Rob Nicholls]
o Nmap and Nmap-Winpcap silent installation now works. Nmap can
be silently installed with the /S option to the installer.
If you install Nmap from the zip file, you can install just
Winpcap silently with the /S option to that
installer. [Rob Nicholls]
o Our WinPcap installer is now included with the Nmap Win32 zip
file. [Fyodor]
o Numerous miscellaneous improvements were made to our Win32
installer, such as using the "Modern" NSIS UI for WinPcap,
improving the option description labels, and showing a finish
page in all cases. [Rob Nicholls]
Windows rather than VersionNumber to more reliably detect Vista
machines. This should prevent the XP version of Packet.dll from
being installed on Vista. [Rob Nicholls]
