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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m a beginner in Winpcap programming and I’d be so thankful if someone could answer my question, I’ve been bashing my head for quite a while trying to understand this.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I'm using pcap_next_ex to capture packets. And if I understand this right, if I put a 1000ms timeout, then pcap_next_ex will fill out the buffer and wait a second before returning. If that is the case, then what does the packet_data* point to?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The data of the first packet? the last one? Because in 1 second, many packets should've been processed, so when the function returns, where are all the payloads of all those packets?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Thank you so for your guidance!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Matías<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>