[Winpcap-users] stop getting packets from a NIC on blade server

[Loris Degioanni]

Pelles, Noam wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I am writing a network sniffer that uses WinPCap  3.1 Beta on Win 
> 2000\2003 servers.
> This application works fine under any server I have used till now,
> but recently I have installed it on blade server, and crossed strange 
> behavior :
>  
> When my application starts it is capturing packets from period of 
> time  , then packets stops for any reason.

"Packets stop" means that you are not seeing captured packets in your 
application, or that the machine protocol stack does not work any more?
What happens if you disable promiscuous mode?

Loris


> When using other application that uses WinPCap ( Packetyzer ) I get the 
> same result ( even when their buffer is not full).
> When I use Ethereal in regular mode( not displaying packets in real time 
> ) also the packets stops after few seconds , only when I check the
> option of  " Update list of packets in real time" packets are being 
> captured all the time.
>  
> Is there any time out that tell the adapter \ driver to stop capture ?
> What different setting the Ethereal is using when checking the real time 
> option ?
>  
> Thanks
>  
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