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When I was on the team migrating datacenters, we got ahold of tcpdump.exe which didn't need winpcap presumably because it was staticly compiled under cygwin - I
by bithead 1y ago
When I was on the team migrating datacenters, we got ahold of tcpdump.exe which didn't need winpcap presumably because it was staticly compiled under cygwin - I'm fairly certain someone didn't write the entire thing including winpcap from scratch.
It was nice because getting anything approved by the windows sysadmin group was like changing the tire on a moving truck.
It was more than a godsend, because when a windows server was plugging into "the wrong vlan" we could just give them the tcpdump command to capture a CDP/LLDP packet and tell us which switch and port the box was physically connected to.
- hnlmorg 1y agoA lot of software from the Linux/UNIX world will have macros to support Windows even without cygwin. For example with tcpdump: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Athe-tcpdump-group%2Ftcpdump%20win32&type=code https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Athe-tcpdump-group%2Ftcpdu... So it’s not quite the same thing as what we were discussing further up the thread. Though it’s still an interesting anecdote in its own right.