Re: libpcap

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 12, 2003, at 11:24 AM, Levin, Andy wrote:

> Is it possible to use libpcap under the cygwin environment???

Possibly, if either

        1) you only want to read capture files, not do live captures

or

        2) if you replace "libp" with "WinP" in "libpcap". :-)

The current CVS version of libpcap includes support for packet 
capturing on Win32 systems - but that support comes from WinPcap, and 
requires the rest of WinPcap.  Cygwin doesn't magically make UNIX 
packet capture mechanisms work on Windows - there isn't *a* UNIX packet 
capture mechanism to *make* work on Windows, there are several of them, 
and one of the purposes of libpcap is to hide that, as much as 
possible, from applications, so the right place to hide the Windows 
packet capture mechanism is in libpcap/WinPcap, not in Cygwin (unless 
the Cygwin developers decide to bundle WinPcap with Cygwin).

You should ask the WinPcap developers whether you can use WinPcap under 
Cygwin.

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