Update comments - Npcap no longer requires HAVE_REMOTE to be defined.

Change-Id: Ib9bda84907de4171376cf0fe29b6fdd4b58fd695
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/36385
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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Guy Harris 2020-03-12 17:12:46 -07:00
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/* wspcap.h
*
* Wrapper around libpcap/WinPcap/Npcap's pcap.h.
* Wrapper around libpcap/WinPcap's pcap.h.
*
* If HAVE_PCAP_REMOTE is defined, it forces the WinPcap/Npcap header files to
* If HAVE_PCAP_REMOTE is defined, it forces the WinPcap header files to
* define things required for remote capture, by defining HAVE_REMOTE.
*
* With current versions of the WinPcap or Npcap SDK, if:
* With all versions of the WinPcap SDK, if:
*
* 1) you are building with any current WinPcap or Npcap SDK;
* 1) you are building with any current WinPcap SDK;
* 2) you do not define HAVE_REMOTE before including pcap.h (or
* pcap/pcap.h);
* 3) you define a struct pcap_stat and pass it to a call to
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* will make no difference).
*
* No version of the WinPcap SDK provided libpcap 1.9.0-or-later headers.
* The Npcap SDK, as of SDK version 1.01, does not provide libpcap 1.9.0-
* or-later headers, even though newer versions of Npcap are based on
* with remote capture support will not have this problem. Newer versions
* libpcap 1.9.0; an issue has been filed against Npcap for that.
* The Npcap SDK, as of SDK version 1.04, provides them, so this is
* only necessary for building with the WinPcap SDK.
*
* Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
* By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>