----- 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
>
>
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