Hello Arno,

I know about the components. They use ICS raw sockets. Because
ICS raw sockets does not capture broadcast packets, they don't
either :(

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Best regards,
Jack

Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 9:58:59 AM, you wrote:

> Jack wrote:
>> Resending ... anyone has any idea why this is happening?

> These components use ICS:
> http://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/magmonsock.asp

> "Raw sockets which are available with Windows 2000 and later.
> This uses WSocket from the François Piette internet component suite,
> from http://www.overbyte.be/. Major benefit is that no other
> software needs to be installed, but raw sockets don't seem to work
> fully with some network adaptors, and ignore non-IP protocols. Some
> adaptors may capture received packets, but ignore anything sent."

> ---
> Arno Garrels [TeamICS]
> http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html


>> 
>> ===8<==============Original message text===============
>> Hello Francois,
>> 
>> I used the code you posted earlier to capture traffic with raw
>> sockets. It's the UDP packets I'm interested. It all works fine
>> with packets specifically addressed to this IP. However, all
>> broadcast packets are not captured, such as 192.168.1.255.
>> I tried a C++ library based on raw socket and it worked. I briefly
>> looked at the C++ code and didn't find anything obvious. Can you think
>> of any reason that the ICS raw sockets is not doing that?
>> 
>>             WSocket1.ReqVerHigh       := 2;
>>             WSocket1.ReqVerLow        := 2;
>>             WSocket1.Proto            := 'raw_ip';
>>             WSocket1.Port             := '0';
>>             WSocket1.ComponentOptions := [wsoSIO_RCVALL];
>>             WSocket1.Addr             := '192.168.1.102';
>>             WSocket1.Listen;
>> 
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Jack
>> ===8<===========End of original message text===========

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