----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goran B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: [WinPcap-users] Disable capturing of outgoing packets


> Hello Everybody,
>
> I'm working on a very simple software ethernet bridge using winpcap. It
> uses only two NICs. Packets received on the first NIC will be sent out
> on the other and vice versa.
> Now, due to the 'loopback' mechanism, everytime I forward a packet, the
> same packet is then received later on the same nic that it was sent on
> (which will be forwarded to the first device, which will receive it
> again and so on...).
>
> I'm using Windows XP Professional and I've tried to modify the NPF
> driver to set the NDIS_FLAGS_DONT_LOOPBACK on outgoing packets but it
> does not work.
> I've also tried to set NDIS_FLAGS_DONT_LOOPBACK|0x400 which is supposed
> to be an undocumented feature of win2k but that didn't work either.

Hi. If I remember well, the right flag under Windows XP is
NDIS_FLAGS_SKIP_LOOPBACK.
I've answered a similar question some time ago on this mailing list, it's
archived here

http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00832.html

Have a nice day
GV




>
> Have you experienced similar problems? Is there any solution to this?
>
>
>
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