The beta2 of WinPcap 3.1 is available from today in the download section of the WinPcap site.
WinPcap 3.1 beta2 is a minor update, that fixes a number of bugs that were present in the first beta. There's a new feature, too: under 2000/XP/2003 we have added a new fake NdisWan adapter, useful to capture LCP/NCP PPP packet, for example. This adapter is always listed (if you have enough privileges), even if you don't have any PPP/VPN/... connection established. Please note that this feature is experimental, and that we will be glad to hear comments from people that use it. CHANGELOG ========= - Added some code to show a fake NdisWan adapter, useful to capture LCP/NCP packets. This adapter is always listed on 2000/XP/2003 (if you have enough privileges), even if you don't have any PPP/VPN/... connection established. - Added a check in the installer, so that the installation fails if you don't have administrator privileges. - Added a check so that NdisWan adapters (PPP, VPN, ...) are listed only if you can capture from them. - Added a new sample program, which gets the MAC address of an interface using packet.dll - Modified the access to the global list of adapters in packet.dll under NT4/2000/XP/2003. Now packet.dll should be thread-safe. - Bug fixing: + fixed some resource leaks in the remote capture daemon (rpcapd). + fixed a couple of resource leaks in packet.dll. + fixed some meaningless last error messages set by PacketOpenAdapter (e.g. "The operation completed successfully"). + fixed a shortcoming in pcap_findalldevs, by which the adapters where not listed if they couldn't fit into a 8kB buffer. + fixed a memory leak in pcap_lookupdev. + fixed some bugs related to adapters listing: * some adapters were not listed, especially if some registry keys are messed up. * in some situations the listing failed with the message "Attempt to release a mutex not owned by caller" * if PacketGetAdapterNames() failed, it returned the wrong number of needed bytes for the input buffer. + fixed a buffer overrun in npf.sys that caused crashes (BSODs) when there are too many adapters in the registry. + fixed a bug in npf.sys that caused blue screens (BSODs) when you try to send "jumbo" packets, i.e. packets bigger than the maximum frame size for the selected link type. + minor bug fixes. ============================= ================================================================== This is the WinPcap users list. It is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To unsubscribe use mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================================================================