[Winpcap-users] Feature request: restricting use of winpcap

[Gianluca Varenni]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loris Degioanni" <loris.degioanni at gmail.com>
To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] Feature request: restricting use of winpcap


>I would say the second one. Of course this is just an idea, without too 
>many toughts behind it.
> The administrator could restrict the captures to the local machine, and 
> the user could furter choose only port 80 packets.

I was thinking that it could be interesting to restricting the user not to 
enable promiscuous mode, as well, although I'm not so sure it's feasible (at 
the moment I don't remember what happens if two apps open open the same 
adapter, one in promisc mode and the other in non-promisc mode).

Have a nice day
GV

>
> Loris
>
>
> Guy Harris wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Loris Degioanni wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for my previuos email in Italian, wrongly sent to the list. I  was 
>>> commenting with Gianluca that a "default" BPF filter, that the 
>>> administrator can set to restrict the view of normal users, could  be a 
>>> quite cool feature to add.
>>
>>
>> As a filter that is used instead of the user-specified filter, or as  a 
>> filter that's implicitly ANDed with the user-specified filter (so  the 
>> user can further restrict the capture to see even fewer packets  than the 
>> default filter can see)?
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