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<DIV><FONT size=2>The reason behind this requirement is that in order to list
the adapters we need to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>1. start the underlying kernel driver if it's not already
running and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>2. communicate with the driver to get some information from
each adapter.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Hope it helps</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>GV<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mikael@hillborg.se href="mailto:mikael@hillborg.se">Mikael
Hillborg</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=winpcap-users@winpcap.org
href="mailto:winpcap-users@winpcap.org">winpcap-users@winpcap.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 24, 2009 2:10 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Winpcap-users] basic_dump
example</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Guy Harris wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:48A62DA3-BC87-4CE5-A9FD-9A262335AE73@alum.mit.edu
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">On May 23, 2009, at 5:37 AM, Mikael Hillborg wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">The line:
pcap_findalldevs_ex(PCAP_SRC_IF_STRING, NULL, &alldevs, errbuf)
returns -1 and the app then exits with
fprintf(stderr,"Error in pcap_findalldevs: %s\n", errbuf);
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap=""><!---->
What's the full message that it prints? (I.e., what's in errbuf?</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><TT><BR>Hi,<BR><BR>My
mistake, I didn't run the app as administrator. I'm a little surprised though
that it's not even possible to enumerate the devices without running the app
as administrator. <BR><BR>Regards<BR>Mikael<BR><BR><BR></TT>
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