[Winpcap-users] pcap_sendpacket async or sync behaviour?

[Carlo Medas]

Dear Gianluca,
thanks for your more than exaustive answer. The way it works sounds great
for any need, moreover for my needs (network monitoring).

Thanks and ciao,

\Carlo

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Gianluca Varenni <
gianluca.varenni at cacetech.com> wrote:

>  Carlo,
> pcap_sendpacket is basically sync, i.e. it passes the packet to be
> transmitted to the underlying miniport controlling the NIC, and it waits for
> such miniport to return. However, the miniport might decide to return
> success even if the packet has been scheduled to be transmitted (i.e. it's
> in some transmit queue) but has not actually been transmitted yet.
>
> Does it make any sense to you?
>
> Have a nice day
> GV
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Carlo Medas <carlomedas at gmail.com>
> *To:* winpcap-users at winpcap.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:09 AM
> *Subject:* [Winpcap-users] pcap_sendpacket async or sync behaviour?
>
> Dear all,
> sorry for newbie question but... I was wondering if pcap_sendpacket is sync
> or async.
>
> If it's async, do I get a special error reported?
> If it's sync, I suppose that it would block until my packet has been sent?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> \Carlo Medas
>
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