----- Original Message ----- From: "Beattie, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:36 AM Subject: [WinPcap-users] blue screen possible using PacketSendPacket?
> I made the mistake once yesterday with the new WinPcap 3.0 alpha of sending > a packet using a buffer that was way too large. (I actually sent a packet > using the LPPACKET pointer that I was using to receive packets, which of > course had been initialized to a quarter megabyte in size.) I don't know > why, but at around this time I got an unrecoverable "Stop" blue screen on my > Windows 2000 system. (I think I was sending to an Intel Pro/100 card NDIS > driver, but I'm not sure.) I never tried this before, and don't think I > will try it again (would rather not crash this particular computer more than > necessary if I can help it!). I fixed the code immediately afterwards, so I > don't actually know if it is reproducable, and I don't know if it is library > version dependent, and can't even conclusively say that it was the WinPcap > driver that crashed. If I remember right the "Stop" screen pointed to > NTOSKRNL as the module that crashed. We will test in the next weeks. Thanks for the report. GV PS. The "module" ntoskrnl.exe is the windows kernel. > > Just thought I would mention my experience in case there's a bug that needs > fixing. > > Regards, > > David Beattie > Software Test Engineer > Intel Corporation > > > ================================================================== > This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe use > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe > ================================================================== > ================================================================== This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe use mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe ==================================================================
