[Winpcap-users] error while building winpcap

[Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao]

> How do you configure your WiFi driver to go into promiscuous mode? Is it
> done through the usual
> OID_GEN_CURRENT_PACKET_FILTER, a custom OID code or some other mechanism?
>
We know from the manufacturer how to set their driver to that mode.
What I'm trying to learn is how to let WinPcap know that and catch all
packets.  I'll study how this OID_GEN_CURRENT_PACKET_FILTER works :)

Joshua


>> So my change only needs to rebuild the wpcap.dll. Now when I compile
>> wpcap project, I run to an error which cannot find packet.lib or
>> packet.dll.  Since I don't want to rebuild packet.lib/.dll, can I just
>> copy an existing one and use it to build wpcap.dll?
>
> It's definitely possible to copy the version of packet.lib shipped with the
> developer's pack into the proper folders.
> The x86 packet.lib file should be put into
> packetNtx\Dll\Project\Debug\x86
> packetNtx\Dll\Project\Release\x86
>
> The x64 one should be put into
> packetNtx\Dll\Project\Debug\x64
> packetNtx\Dll\Project\Release\x64
>
>> In fact I'm not sure I really understand how WinPcap understand the
>> driver's capability and then let Wireshark know it supports
>> promiscuous mode. Are there some document describing the mechanism?
>
> There's actually no mechanism to query for the promiscuous mode support.
> WinPcap just tries to set the underlying miniport into promiscuous mode
> (using OID_GEN_CURRENT_PACKET_FILTER) and returns failure in case the OID
> request fails.
>
> Hope it helps
> GV
>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Joshua
>>
>>
>>> Have a nice day
>>> GV
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao"
>>> <swzhao at gmail.com>
>>> To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:08 PM
>>> Subject: [Winpcap-users] error while building winpcap
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking to make a small change in winpcap so that I can test my
>>>> idea with wireshark. So I downloaded winpcap-4.0.2 source code and
>>>> tried to build it at first.
>>>>
>>>> With both VS2008ee and VS2005ee, I met the following error message and
>>>> I'm confused. Here studio.h is given by VS itself. How come it shows
>>>> this error? Is there some configuration problem or what else?
>>>>
>>>> 1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\stdio.h(358)
>>>> : error C3163: '_vsnprintf': attributes inconsistent with previous
>>>> declaration
>>>> 1>        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>> 9.0\VC\include\stdio.h(350) : see declaration of '_vsnprintf'
>>>>
>>>> I really appreciate your help.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Joshua
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