[Winpcap-users] Re: breaking out of a pcap_next_ex() loop

Gianluca Varenni gianluca.varenni at cacetech.com
Fri May 12 15:55:08 GMT 2006


Well, pcap_breakloop would work but, as I wrote in the other mail, the UI is 
not responsive since it's stuck receiving packets in the "onButtonCapture" 
handler...

In any case, I usually prefer not to use "pcap_breakloop". This API is there 
mainly to interrupt a pcap_loop or pcap_dispatch call, if you use 
pcap_next_ex you don't have the problem of breaking the internal loop of 
"pcap_loop" or "pcap_dispatch", because you explicitely create the loop 
surrounding pcap_next_ex.

Have a nice day
GV




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gubrush ." <vga_planets at hotmail.com>
To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: RE: [Winpcap-users] Re: breaking out of a pcap_next_ex() loop


> Hi
>
> How about pcap_breakloop( pointer_to_handle );
>
> http://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs31/html/group__wpcapfunc.html#ga15
>
>
>
>>From: joe kibz <chikabanga2005 at yahoo.com>
>>Reply-To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
>>To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
>>Subject: [Winpcap-users] Re: breaking out of a pcap_next_ex() loop
>>Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 05:53:59 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>problem:
>>
>>   here's my code in brief:
>>
>>   void CButton::onButtonCapture(){
>>
>>   open a device handle;
>>
>>   while(pcap_next_ex())//capture packets;
>>
>>   }
>>
>>   ?How do i break out or stop a pcap_next_ex() loop whenever i want ?
>>   ?How does the timeout value in pcap_next_ex() parameters work ?
>>
>>
>>   joe
>>
>>
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