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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The reason for the crash is heap corruption.
It most probably happening in my code, just wanted to double check with the
group. </span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We have put locks on the threads, it seems
to be helping, and we can positively conclude this after few days. </span></font></p>

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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org [mailto:winpcap-users-bounces@winpcap.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Gianluca Varenni<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
 October 18, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>11:13 AM</span></font><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>winpcap-users@winpcap.org</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Winpcap-users]
Issues with Multiple NIC cards</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Srinivas,</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>it is definitely safe to capture from multiple cards
(using for example a thread per card). The only function that is not thread
safe is pcap_compile(), which uses some global variables to compile the
filters. </span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>What is the exact reason for the crash? access
violation? </span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>GV</span></font></p>

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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:Srinivas.Voora@etalk.com" title="Srinivas.Voora@etalk.com">Voora,
Srinivas</a> </span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:winpcap-users@winpcap.org" title="winpcap-users@winpcap.org">winpcap-users@winpcap.org</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Monday,
October 16, 2006 2:53 PM</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
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[Winpcap-users] Issues with Multiple NIC cards</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><!--ppd1000033-->Hi,</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I wanted to check if there are any
issues running with multiple NIC cards (4 fiber optic cards). We have one
thread for each card doing </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>pcap_next_ex( handle,
&amp;header, &amp;data ). The app crashes all of a sudden. The dump
doesn&#8217;t show any particular location other then it happens in the
functions relating to the packet captures. This doesn&#8217;t happen with one
NIC card. We are using win pcap version 3.1.</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks in Advance,</span></font></p>

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