Avanti/FreeAXP WinPcap 4.1.3 Conflict

This is a notice that we have discovered a conflict between WinPcap 4.1.3 and Avanti / FreeAXP. If WinPcap 4.1.3 is installed, it conflicts with the Avanti NDIS network driver, preventing it from launching. The problem causes both Avanti and the Avanti configuration utility to hang. We are working on resolving the issue.

There is no conflict with WinPcap 4.1.2. If installing a product that requires WinPcap, such as WireShark or SimH, use WinPcap 4.1.2 to avoid impacting Avanti.

Hi,

FreeAXP 3.0.0.614, Win 10 Pro 64 bit and WinPCAP 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3 doesn't work together.
If I remove WinPCAP at all FreeAXP works but of course other WinPCAP programs (Whireshark, SimH) don't.

Please check them together again!

TIA,

Oh I forgot to mention: I tried out Win10Pcap-v10.2-5002, too. It doen't work, either!

TIA,

Retested with Windows 10 and confirmed your findings. We are working on a fix.

Hi,

Thank you for your comfirmation!
We are waiting for the fix.

Hi,

Something happened!

Host OS: Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit.
Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.0 + extension
Guest OS: Win10Pro.
FreeAXP 3.0.0.614 first time was installed without its MSI network driver (PCAP) (unchecked in the option install window).
Win10Pcap 10.2.5002
SimH 3.9-0.

SimH VAX was started successfully.
In the W10's adapter properties there was a tick in front of Win10Pcap Packet Capture Driver.

FreeAXP was started successfully and there was no chooseable NIC (except Dummy driver). -> No network support.

I went back, removed the tick from Win10Ocap driver on the LAN adapter's properties and I modified the FreeAXP install with enabling its MSI capture driver installation.

Test again.

The default situation:
SimH - Could't see any NIC at "sh xq eth', as usual without PCAP support.
FreeAXP - works like a charm.

The enabled Win10Pcap support scenario:
SimH - works with Win10Pcap.
FreeAXP accept this PCAP situation and I was able to start my OpenVMS 8.4!

I want to mention I haven't tested the OpenVMS networking, yet!
Under FreeAXP the TCP/IP (or DECNet/LAT) hasn't configured, yet. The bare OS is working.
SimH VAX - no OS was installed so I wasn't able to test the network. I just used "sh xq eth" command.

So it is a over virtualised system now but it seems working (I hope the network will work, too in VMS).
In a later time I will make a test with real Win10 with the above install trick!

TIA,