User manual

Microsoft Windows™

Host software requirements (Windows)

VAX MP requires Windows XP SP3 or higher version of Windows, either 32-bit or 64-bit edition.

Under 64-bit editions of Windows VAX MP can be built and/or run either as 32-bit or 64-bit application.

Extensive testing of VAX MP had been performed only on Windows 7 and Windows XP. In addition

limited testing of 32-bit processor VAX MP configuration had also been performed on Windows Server

2008 R2.

It is expected that VAX MP will also run under Windows Vista, but this had not been tested. It is

expected that VAX MP will also run under Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows Server,

but this had not been tested thoroughly and possibility of encountering problems although small but is

higher than for desktop editions of Windows.

VAX MP pre-built executable images use statically linked C runtime library and do not require Microsoft

Visual C++ redistributable runtime libraries to be installed as a prerequisite on the target system.

Host networking software configuration (Windows)

To use network with VAX MP, download and install the latest version of WinPCAP.

Restart the system

after installing WinPCAP.

WinPCAP installation offers selectable option to autostart the npf driver when the host system boots;

select this option during the installation, since VAX MP network layer requires WinPCAP npf driver to be

loaded and started. If you do not select this option, VAX MP will try to load the driver, but will succeed

only if running with administrator privileges.

You can see a list of host machine’s network adapters in Network section of Windows Control Panel, or

you can use the following VAX MP console command to list available host network interfaces:

sim> show xq eth

ETH devices:

0 \Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter (Adapter for generic dialup and

VPN capture)

1 \Device\NPF_{1C501304-D702-4B2A-BACF-167D5D493025} (Marvell Yukon)

2 \Device\NPF_{C03A487B-A0CF-4E67-BEDF-FCB945D6D13A} (Network Bridge)

3 \Device\NPF_{E3B2F623-27E3-40DB-85D5-DE6AD8C11F7E} (VMware Network Adapter VMnet1)

4 \Device\NPF_{C48D5C18-CB05-4E46-88D5-A04C0DBA1AED} (VMware Network Adapter VMnet8)

5 \Device\NPF_{E389889C-A63B-4A3B-A046-D86D9C6E0101} (MS Tunnel Interface Driver)

6 \Device\NPF_{5173795E-435D-46F0-BA13-39E49D5CFA49} (MS Loopback adaptor)

VAX MP can be configured under Windows either as single-interface set-up or as dual-homed or as

bridged set-up.

http://www.winpcap.org