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

[Jianqiu Zhang]

Hi, 

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-Sev...
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 
2. Write packet.dll which is needed by native wpcap.dll, and then use native wpcap.dll

I will write testcase for the new dll packet.dll.

Is there andy sugesstions on this idea? Any suggesstions are appreciated

Thanks

Jianqiu

[André Hentschel]

Am 15.02.2016 um 03:44 schrieb Jianqiu Zhang:
> Hi,

Hi,

thanks for your proposal.
comments below
> 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-Sev...
> 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?
> 2. Write packet.dll which is needed by native wpcap.dll, and then use native wpcap.dll

I'm not convinced we should reimplement packet.dll, it's open source and can easily be compiled with winelib.
Your code would be just a copy of the original with some adjustments or tries to alter it so that it looks different, like in the patch you posted.

[Jianqiu Zhang]

At 2016-02-16 04:54:05, "André Hentschel" <nerv(a)dawncrow.de> wrote:
> Am 15.02.2016 um 03:44 schrieb Jianqiu Zhang:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your proposal.
> comments below
> > 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-Sev...
> > 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?

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?
> > 2. Write packet.dll which is needed by native wpcap.dll, and then use native wpcap.dll
>
> I'm not convinced we should reimplement packet.dll, it's open source and can easily be compiled with winelib.
> Your code would be just a copy of the original with some adjustments or tries to alter it so that it looks different, like in the patch you posted.

Maybe this work is not enough, What do you think add iphlpapi together with wpcap ? Or do you have any suggested programs that have enough work
to do during GSoC? Hopefully it's related to network ~

Thanks ~

[Austin English]

On Feb 16, 2016 10:35 PM, "Jianqiu Zhang" <zhangjianqiu_133(a)yeah.net> wrote:
> At 2016-02-16 04:54:05, "André Hentschel" <nerv(a)dawncrow.de> wrote:
> > Am 15.02.2016 um 03:44 schrieb Jianqiu Zhang:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks for your proposal.
> > comments below
> > > 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-Sev...
> > > 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?
>
> 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.