On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao wrote: > > > With Wireshark, I'm trying to modify it to send NDIS requests to a > > wifi card driver on windows OS. > > Ideally, Wireshark shouldn't do that; all operations on capture > devices should be done through libpcap/WinPcap. > > However, as not all the functionality that Wireshark can use is yet > implemented by libpcap/WinPcap APIs, sometimes Wireshark has to > implement that itself. What is it you're trying to do? > > > To do this I need to call CreateFile() and pass a string of device > > name to it. > > That's not necessarily the case. > > See, for example, gtk/capture_if_details_dlg_win32.c, which makes > calls to wpcap_packet_request_uint() to fetch various statistics and > other information about a network adapter. It calls wpcap_packet_open > () to get a lower-level handle on the device. > > Those routines are in capture_wpcap_packet.c, which provides access to > the Packet Driver API in Winpcap; the routines from that file might be > sufficient to do what you want. Yeah, this seems to be what I'm looking for. I'll try it out. Many thanks, Joshua > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe >
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