I'm wondering this primarily for educational purposes. I installed Winpcap, but can't actually find reference to it on the system. In services.msc I see no reference to Winpcap or NTP. I'm able to start the service by typing "net start ntp", and it confirms that the NetGroup Packet Filter has started. However if I type "net start" again, it generates a list of the windows services that are running, and I see no reference to the NetGroup Packet Filter which I just started and is running, nor a reference to winpcap. So basically, I can start and stop it, and it works, but I can't actually find record of it running, as if its invisible. So how can I find it? note: wireshark works just fine, I'm just wondering purely for my own knowledge of understanding how this service or driver can be seemingly invisibly running. asked 08 Jan '15, 14:01 mxmaniac |
One Answer:
You can query the status of the service with the sc.exe command (service control):
npf is the "NetGroup Packet Filter Driver" service comming with Winpcap. answered 08 Jan '15, 23:07 Uli |
thank you!