[Winpcap-users] Lost packets on load

Loris Degioanni loris.degioanni at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 17:42:04 GMT 2005


This is very weird.
Are you using wpcap.dll or packet.dll? Did you start from the examples 
in the developer's pack? If yes, do they have the same problem? Unless 
there's some macroscopic bug that we never spotted, your application 
should not interact at all with other processes using winpcap.

Loris


Pelles, Noam wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
> I am writing a network sniffer that uses WinPCap on Win 2000\2003 servers.
> I have a strange problem which bothers me :
>  
> I am filtering packets according to their IP's and using more than one 
> client for that.
> When I decrease network load ( sending packets which are NOT in one of 
> my filters - I.e not meant to be captured)
> I start loosing packets that should be captured.
>  
> The lost of packets *STOP* when I open the Packetyzer  application ( 
> which also uses WinPCap).
> The CPU usage of my application decrease dramatically , but it is no 
> longer loose packets !! ( even if the Packetyzer does not capture
> packets at all..).
> I have tried to download the source code of packetyzer , but could not 
> succeed ( any one have this source ??).
>  
> Does any one know what can cause this behavior ? what settings can 
> effect other application that uses WinPCap( beside mode) ?
> Any one familiar with settings that can cause this problem ??
>  
> Thanks
>  
>  
>  
>  
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