[Winpcap-bugs] (no subject)

[Gianluca Varenni]

Hi.

We are aware of the issue. It has already been fixed in our sources, and the 
fix will be available in the next release of WinPcap.

Thanks for the report

Have a nice day
GV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jboehm at htwg-konstanz.de>
To: <winpcap-bugs at winpcap.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 12:21 AM
Subject: [Winpcap-bugs] (no subject)


> Ciao!
>
> I'm not sure if the error just occurs on my Computer but I don't think so. 
> I
> downloaded WinPcap and tested some programs out of the tutorial. Already 
> one of
> the first ones "Opening an adapter and capturing the packets" did not 
> work. I
> received always the error message "Unable to open adapter. XY is not 
> supported
> by WinPcap".
>
> The error came due to the suffix in front of the adapter name 
> rpcap://\Device.
> After removing the suffix it worked. I just shifted the pointer to the 
> !right!
> position.
>
> /* Open the device */
> if ( (adhandle= pcap_open(d->name+8,  // That's what I changed
>                          65536,
>                          PCAP_OPENFLAG_PROMISCUOUS,
>                          1000,
>                          NULL,
>                          errbuf
>                         ) ) == NULL)
> {
>   fprintf(stderr,"\nUnable to open the adapter. %s is not supported by
> WinPcap\n", d->name);
>   pcap_freealldevs(alldevs);
>   return -1;
> }
>
>
>
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