On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:57:09PM +0200, Loris Degioanni wrote:
> The driver at the moment doesn't provide any means to obtain the version
> number. Probably, an IOCTL could be added for this purpose. I underline the
> fact that no one that uses the winpcap installer will be able to have
> mismatching versions of NPF/packet.dll.

Yes - the reason an ioctl of that sort might be useful is to catch
people getting mismatched versions because they didn't just use the
WinPcap installer, but also installed files by hand.

Given that there's no guarantee that mismatched versions work, perhaps
the correct behavior is for the open routines to return a "mismatched
versions" error string if you try to open a device and the versions of
packet.dll and NPF aren't the same.

(You could also have the WinPcap open routines check the version of
wpcap.dll and packet.dll, and return errors if *they're* not the same,
if mismatched versions of those aren't guaranteed to work, either.)


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