In article <1220566nfec0jb3@news.supernews.com>,
Atlas <atlaspeak@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Wondering if there's any "network" overhead leaving WinPcap installed even
>when not analyzing traffic.

Not sure what you mean by "network overhead"? If WinPcap is idle, there
won't be any network overhead since there is no additional network traffic
generated by WinPcap or the app that loaded it. In general, traffic
analyzers are totally passive and don't create/send packets.

There will be some CPU/memory overhead since WinPcap and it's parent app
will still be in memory.

>Also windering if there's an option to enable/disable winPcap without
>uninstalling it.

What platform (OS) are you using? I'm sure if you don't load the program
that uses WinPcap, then WinPcap won't be taking up memory space if that's
what you're getting at?

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