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Newsgroups : Borland : borland.public.delphi.internet.winsock : 2007 Mar : Re: Missing packets when "sniffing" with winsock.
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| Subject: | Re: Missing packets when "sniffing" with winsock. |
| Posted by: | "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" (no.spam@no.spam.com) |
| Date: | Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:56:23 |
"fp" <free.prefix@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1173086545.514654.147890@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com...
> When ethereal shows for example 500 ICMP packets, my program
> shows only around 450, i.e. it is missing packets that Ethereal was
> able to capture.
Ethereal does not use a socket to sniff packets. It uses the PCap
library to hook into WinSock directly at a lower level.
> Is there a better implementation
Use WinPCap (http://www.winpcap.org) in your own code.
Gambit
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