>     1) you're *not* using WinPcap - where "WinPcap" is defined not as
> "anything compiled from the WinPcap source", but as "the libraries and
> drivers compiled froom the WinPcap source *for Windows* - as WinPcap
> doesn't run on Solaris or HP-UX or any of the other UN*Xes 
> that use DLPI
> (Data Link Provider Interface) to attach to link-layer device drivers
> (Windows uses NDIS, not DLPI)

Indeed you are correct. I hadn't noticed in the bug report that the host
was Solaris 8. The same application code is cross-compiled with WinPcap
on Windows and libpcap on various flavours of Unix.

> If, in fact, 1) is the answer, you should ask about this on
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Please indicate exactly what operating
> system, and what version of that operating system, you're 
> using.  (If the
> answer is "AIX", you should probably consider compiling 
> libpcap to use BPF
> rather than DLPI.)

Thanks for the pointer and I apologise for taking up your time.

Thanks,
Gordon


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