[WinPcap-users] Winpcap not on promiscuous mode

[Rajasekharan. V]

Hi,   I am using the latest version (2.3) of winpcap (the low-level interface using packet.dll) and for some reason it refuses to read packets unless I put it into promisuous mode.  Its a 100 mbps switched network.  I have tested it on both Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional with the same results.   I wish to be able to simply read packets that are intended for me.  I can certainly read all the packets that come through the interface and drop those that are not for me, but that seems like a work-around.  Please help.   Secondly, I wonder why there is no interface in the low-level API for finding out the NIC's hardware address.  We can certainly retrieve it through alternate APIs or through SNMP, but I do feel that without a function that returns the interface's hardware address the API is less than complete(!)   -- Rajasekharan. V http://www.geocities.com/cool_ranju/ --