[WinPcap-users] BPF compile w/out using wpcap.dll + Offline setting of the filter

[Daniel Frimerman]

Hi,    have negative feeling about wpcap.dll, a little bit too much overhead for simple things I need. I heard someone posting in forums about it being multiplatform, it doesn't mean that it won't work on all windows versions.   To the main part. I had a look at pcap_compile and fainted. Has anyone coded a separate routine to compile filter strings which doesn't take any wpcap.dll specific values such as the first parameter of adapter returned by other pcap functions, that can be used with packet.dll? Sadly, from what I gathered, wpcap.dll functions can't be reused with packet.dll. It would be nice if winpcap provided more wpcap independent functions that can be used with packet.dll.   How do apply the filter before any packets have been captured (packet.dll)? Or....all packets are dropped until I set the buffer size, so, I can set the filter first, then set the buffer size?   Thanks,   Daniel