Hello all
Thanks to your answers, and thanks to Charles Swiger
for mentioning the timeout value, i went to the
manpage and re-read that, and figured out that I had
misinterpreted the timeout purpose. I thought that if
I set it to zero, I would wait forever and as soon as
a packet arrived I would
Hello
--- Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> pcap_dispatch() will not
> necessarily
> return when the read times out; on some
> platforms, the read
> timeout
> isn't supported, and, on other platforms,
> the timer doesn't
> start until
> at least one packe
On May 21, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Daniel Valencia wrote:
[ ...pcap reading code stalling... ]
Is this normal pcap behaviour, or is it some
FreeBSD-specific behaviour, or is it just me?
It's unfortunately normal. You're running into this (from "man pcap"):
NOTE: when reading a live capture
On May 20, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Daniel Valencia wrote:
I know this may sound funny, but I'm still wrestling
with libpcap because I send packets and I cannot read
them. I tried also some example code of a toy sniffer
from a tutorial to pcap, and it behaves just like my
code. As my code is pretty c
Hello and thanks for your prompt answer...
I followed your (Jon Simola's) advice, so i defined
BUFSIZ as 2000, although my tutorial said it was
defined somewhere in the pcap headers, and added a
pcap_loop instead of the pcap_next. I also modified
the program to only show packets that are sent fro
