[Winpcap-users] Winpcap 4.0.2, Windows Vista (Business edition& SP1)

[Gianluca Varenni]

The best solution in this case is to try generating a crash dump when this 
happens, and send it to me. I can analyze the crash dump and hopefully 
understand what's going on.

This is how to do that:

1. enable kernel memory dump. Go to the Control Panel, System, choose 
Advanced System Settings on the left, go to the Advanced tab, Startup and 
recovery settings, in the drop down called "write debugging information" 
choose "Kernel memory dump".
2. follow the instructions in this KB to enable crashing your machine 
through the keyboard

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139 (remember to reboot after you have 
changed the registry keys)

3. run your application, when it's hung use the magic key combination to 
crash your machine (holding down the right CTRL key and pressing the SCROLL 
LOCK key two times).
4.  After the machine has crashed and you have rebooted, you will find a 
file named "memory.dmp" in c:\windows\. Zip the file and upload it to 
ftp://www.winpcap.org/pub/incoming/
5. Let me know when the crash dump is available

Have a nice day
GV



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eddie Ehlin" <eddie.ehlin at vastgotadata.se>
To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] Winpcap 4.0.2, Windows Vista (Business edition& 
SP1)


> Hi GV,
>
> I have now installed the WinPcap (4.1 beta4) and I have now been able to 
> send a packet using the sendpack-example. Though
> the application hangs after it has sent the packet, so I guess there still 
> is some issues that need to be handled...
>
> I'm  open for ideas!
>
> Best regards,
> Eddie
>
> Gianluca Varenni skrev:
>> Eddie,
>>
>> this is one of those problems that are a pain to debug...
>>
>> First of all, does the problem appear with the latest WinPcap beta 
>> version as well (4.1 beta4)?
>> If yes, a solution to this is force your laptop to crash and generate the 
>> crash dump. There is a way to crash the machine through the keyboard. If 
>> the problem happens on beta4 as well, I will tell you how to do that.
>>
>> Have a nice day
>> GV
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eddie Ehlin" 
>> <eddie.ehlin at vastgotadata.se>
>> To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
>> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 4:57 AM
>> Subject: [Winpcap-users] Winpcap 4.0.2,Windows Vista (Business edition & 
>> SP1)
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have received a new laptop at work, preinstalled with Windows Vista 
>>> Business Edition SP1, and when I tried to run my application it just 
>>> hangs. I'm unable to kill the process, so the only way to return to 
>>> square one is by rebooting the actual machine. My application runs 
>>> without any problems under Windows XP (SP3) with version 4.0.2.
>>>
>>> I did some investigation and I managed to figure out that it seems to be 
>>> related to pcap_sendpacket; pcap_sendpacket just hangs and never 
>>> returns. Same state occur when I run the example program sendpack 
>>> (Examples-pcap/sendpack) - it just hangs..
>>>
>>> Development enviroment:
>>> Winpcap: 4.0.2 (with one little change in pcap-stdinc.h at 63: //#define 
>>> vsnprintf _vsnprintf ) Unable to compile without it.
>>> MS Visual studio 2008
>>> Language used: C++
>>>
>>> Hardware:
>>> Network interface (output from iflist example):
>>> \Device\NPF_{46702B44-CCC4-44F9-A03F-4C13BBB5BC96}
>>>        Description: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Driver
>>>        Loopback: no
>>>        Address Family: #23
>>>        Address Family Name: AF_INET6
>>>        Address: fe80::dc34:ca35:7142:b505%13
>>>        Address Family: #2
>>>        Address Family Name: AF_INET
>>>        Address: 10.1.0.106
>>>        Netmask: 255.255.255.0
>>>        Broadcast Address: 255.255.255.255
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Eddie
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