Re: Npcap 0.01 call for test (2nd)

[Yang Luo <hsluoyb () gmail com>]

Hi Tyson,

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Tyson Key <tyson.key () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Yang,
>
> Just downloaded your latest package, and here's my experience, so far:
>
> After uninstalling the old WinPCap 4.1.3, and installing your new package
> (without rebooting), I get as far as "NPFInstall.exe - il" (which stalls
> for a while, but then continues, on my machine), and then continue to
> "NPFInstall.exe -iw".
>
> At this stage, it appears that some driver files from the old version are
> still present, and Windows Explorer asks me if I want to replace them with
> "older" (i.e. the latest?) versions, for some reason (maybe the uninstaller
> isn't cleaning things up properly, on x86-64 machines?); before the
> correctly-named "Npcap Loopback Adaptor" gets installed (and then does a
> quick vanishing act (guessing that it tried to rename one of the myriad
> KM-TEST interfaces from earlier), before reappearing). Afterwards, I
> receive "The npf service for Win7 and Win8 was successfully created" - but
> starting Wireshark results in "The NPF driver isn't running.  You may have
> trouble
> capturing or listing interfaces".

Do you receive the Windows dialog asking you to replace old driver files
every time installing?  In fact I have set my installer to replace existed
files silently, I don't know how Windows works on this part, but it
shouldn't happen for a second time.


> I'll follow up with my results of rebooting, shortly - but in the
> meantime, it might be a good idea to have the installer (and uninstaller)
> be smarter about removing older copies of the drivers, and try to
> automatically purge old instances of the loopback adaptor, if they exist.

I have considered removing all loopback adapters when uninstalling Npcap
before, but I don't think it's a good idea. Because there are loopback
adapters for other use. It's not suitable for Npcap to removed those ones.
Npcap will only try to remove the loopback adapter itself installed
(exactly speaking, is the latest loopback adapter you use NPFInstall.exe
-il to have installed). So if you use NPFInstall.exe -il multiple times,
Npcap only remembered to uninstall the latest loopback adapter. However,
NPFInstall.exe -il is not what Npcap wants normal user to run manually, so
it's not an issue here.

Cheers,
Yang

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