<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Brian Panneton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I am aware that pcap_file is deprecated, however I am in need of getting the actual file pointer to the beginning of each packet. Is there some other way to access this pointer? <br></blockquote></div><br><div>Unfortunately, no - there's no pcap_tell() call, for example, and something such as that would be needed (as the documentation indicates, pcap_file() is deprecated because there's no guarantee that its return value could be used, so the ftell() call would have to be done inside WinPcap).</div></body></html>