[Winpcap-bugs] ver 4.0.1 PacketReceivePacket failed

[Gianluca Varenni]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Brannon" <nealbrannon at cableone.net>
To: <winpcap-bugs at winpcap.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:20 PM
Subject: [Winpcap-bugs] ver 4.0.1 PacketReceivePacket failed


> WinPcap version: 4.0.1
> Running on Win2000 sp4 all current patches
> This is a small business system Intel Pentium 4D (dual core) 3Ghz,  4 GB
> memory
> Intel NIC integrated on motherboard
>
> The adapters reported on the PC are:
> [16:03:23] AttachToNIC... adapter[1: \Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter]
> desc(Adapter for generic dialup and VPN capture)
> [16:03:23] AttachToNIC... adapter[2:
> \Device\NPF_{E3146433-CFBD-49B7-9C41-186DCA453D16}] desc(Intel(R) PRO/1000
> PM Network Connection)
>
> I'm using the second adapter.
> I'm connected to a broadband cable network connection and I'm not seeing 
> any
> problems with that.
>
> I have been running WinPcap 3.1 for 6 months with no problems until I
> installed a second video adapter; I now have 2 adapters: ATI x1300 PCIe 
> and
> ATI x1300 PCI.  After installing the second video adapter, I starting
> getting 2-3 bugchecks a day.  I checked the BSOD and the software 
> described
> was NPF.sys ver 3.1.0.27.  I browsed the Web looking for similar problems
> and found a similar problem reported some time ago.  I decided to upgrade
> WinPcap to a newer version.  This morning I completely uninstalled WinPcap
> version 3.1 and installed WinPcap 4.01 from your web site. I recompiled my
> app with the 4.01 libraries.

This is usually not necessary. the lib files of the old WinPcap developer's 
pack are compatible with the newer versions of WinPcap.


>
> My app will now only run for 2-3 minutes (reading several thousand 
> packets)
> before getting a WinPcap error which says:
>
> read error: PacketReceivePacket failed
>
> After this error is reported, all following WinPcap reads will fail, UNTIL 
> I
> REBOOT the PC.
>

Can you tell me what are the numbers in the "kernel memory (K)" and 
"physical memory (K)" panels of the "performance" tab in the task manager 
before and after you run your winpcap based application?


> My app in built using MS C++ 6.0;  I am still using the WinPCap 3.1
> API...for example: I use

There was no change in the API. Usually additions, but no changes i.e. the 
signatures of the functions are always the same.

GV

>
> pcap_open_live with a buffer size of 65535 and a timeout of 1000ms.
>
>
> thanks for your help,
> Neal Brannon
> EHS
> nealbrannon at cableone.net
>
>
>
>


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