[tcpdump-workers] Announce: tcpdump 3.9.8 and libpcap 0.9.8 released

I'm pleased to announce the release of tcpdump 3.9.8 and libpcap 0.9.8, which are now available at http://www.tcpdump.org . Please verify with PGP/GPG the signatures to ensure you have downloaded legitimate packages, and that no corruption has taken place. The PGP/ GPG public key is ava

Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to set my device name with pcap_platform_finddevs()

On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Varuna De Silva wrote: 1. How should I work around so that pcap_findalldevs() will add my device in the list? If you're doing this on Windows, you will have to: modify pcap_findalldevs() in fad-win32.c to, right before it does if (ret =

[tcpdump-workers] Questions about pcap_read() function

Hello, I am trying to add support for my device in libpcap(/winpcap) and I have some doubts regarding the xxx_read() function in the pcap-xxx.c file. This function is there for the packets to be read in, as I understand. For a previous reply I got the following. > .. routine that

[tcpdump-workers] How to set my device name with pcap_platform_finddevs()

Hello, I want to get the name of my device in capture->interfaces > As long as you've modified libpcap/WinPcap so that pcap_findalldevs() adds your device to the list of available > devices, it should be displayed in Capture -> Interfaces and in the drop-down list in Capture -> Options. I also