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From: "Mark Pizzolato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WinPcap-users] Changes in behavior/bugs in Winpcap 3.1beta
>
> Well, my original report/analysis was based on a little bit of laziness.
> Since I had both Ethereal and my App's display of available interfaces I
> tried to infer the inner workings. My analysis was completely wrong.
>
> There is NO issue with the values returned by pcap_datalink(). It returns
> DLT_EN10MB as appropriate.
>
> However, there are an issuues with pcap_findalldevs() on ONLY my Win2K
> Server SMP system, which happens to have installed the Microsoft supplied
> Network Monitor application installed. All of the win-pcap V3.1 beta
> versions work find on my WinXP and Win2K Pro desktop systems.
>
> The Win2K Server SMP system gets the following results from
pcap_findalldevs
> with differing versions of win-pcap:
>
> winpcap V3.0:
> \Device\NPF_{054BF786-C6A0-47E1-A532-3B17559575C2} (Intel(R) PRO/100+
> Management Adapter)
> \Device\NPF_{F582D8E0-3386-4DEE-A88A-68C1B752D3E5} (3Com EtherLink PCI)
>
> winpcap V3.1 beta:
> error in pcap_findalldevs: PacketGetAdapterNames: Attempt to release
mutex
> not owned by caller
Ok, that was fixed in winpcap 3.1beta3.
>
> winpcap V3.1 beta2:
> \Device\NPF_GenericNdisWanAdapter (Generic NdisWan adapter)
>
>
> winpcap V3.1 beta3:
> \Device\NPF_GenericNdisWanAdapter (Generic NdisWan adapter)
This is not normal. Is the missing NIC bound to tcp/ip or not?
Can you please send me a bug report as explained at
http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm, so that I can try to track down the
issue?
Have a nice day
GV
>
>
>
> My original analysis was lead astray by Ethereal's Capture Options Dialog
> box. The Interface field seems to be populated either from a remembered
> value or is derived some other way besides using pcap_findalldevs(). The
> contents of the list dropdown for the Interface IS the interface set
> returned by pcap_findalldevs(). Initially (in my mind) I merged the
current
> value of the field with the dropdown contents. So in the end, Ethereal
and
> my App are seeing the same data (Generic Ndis Wan Adapter), and NOT seeing
> either of the physical NICs which are installed in the system.
>
> - Mark Pizzolato
>
>
>
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