Hi.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: sabato 12 luglio 2003 3.41
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [WinPcap-users] BPF compile w/out using wpcap.dll + Offline
> setting of the filter
>
>
>
> On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 6:38 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > If you want to use it to compile a filter expression into BPF code
> > without using "pcap_open_live()" to get your capture handle, you could
> > use "pcap_open_dead()",
>
> Yes, I know, the documentation for it in the WinPcap 3.0 manual says
> "Deprecated: use the pcap_open() instead", but there doesn't seem to be
> any way to use "pcap_open()" to get a pcap_t that doesn't refer to a
> device or a savefile.
We're updating docs for 3.01.
Some of the info contained into 3.0 (particularly "deprecated" and
"discouraged" functions) are not up to date.
Sorry about that.
> Note, BTW, that the packet.dll documentation for WinPcap 3.0 says
>
> Important note, read carefully!
>
> If you are writing a capture application and you do not have
> particular/low level requrements, you are recommended to use the
> functions of wpcap (see the section� WinPcap user's manual ), that are
> compatible with the ones of the Unix packet capture library (libpcap),
> instead of the API described in this chapter. wpcap.dll relies on
> packet.dll, but provides a more powerful, immediate and easy to use
> programming environment. With wpcap.dll, operations like capturing a
> packet, creating a capture filter or saving a dump on a file are safely
> implemented and intuitive to use.� Moreover, the programs written to
> use libpcap are easily compiled on Unix thanks to the compatibility
> between Win32 and Unix versions of this library.
>
> As a consequence, since the normal and suggested way for an
> application to use WinPcap is through wpcap.dll, we don't grant that
> the packet.dll API will not be changed in the future releases.
>
> so you use packet.dll functions at your own risk.
Yes.
I confirm what the docs and Guy say.
fulvio
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