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Replacing Winpcap with npcap

infrastructure — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:17:59 GMT

Hello,

We host several virtual machines in Azure that are running the OneAgent. The problem is that we have recently started to deploy a probe for Darktrace which uses npcap, and that install fails due to winpcap being present.

I saw in another post (https://community.dynatrace.com/questions/223685/view.html) that Dynatrace is planning to replace winpcap with npcap. I was wondering if there was a time frame for this or if it was still something you are planning to do?

Kind regards

Grant

Re: Replacing Winpcap with npcap

dglugla — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:49:12 GMT

Hi, we plan to replace WinPcap with npcap at the beginning of next year (first quarter).

Re: Replacing Winpcap with npcap

DavidePiras — Wed, 19 May 2021 22:02:34 GMT

Thanks, was that done?

Re: Replacing Winpcap with npcap

mrc15816 — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 03:07:48 GMT

Our security team has questioned the same about WinPCAP and raised concerns. We are interested in know more details about npcap and how would it be rolled out. Looking forward to hear

Re: Replacing Winpcap with npcap

eertul — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:56:02 GMT

Hi,

Is there any advance or any roadmap about this that we can track or something?

Re: Replacing Winpcap with npcap

MaciejNeumann — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:48:49 GMT

According to the documentation, Npcap installation of OneAgent is already available:

Uninstall WinPcap driver to allow Npcap installation