Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Winpcap-users] how Wireshark get linktype?

["Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao" <swzhao@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a way to debug winpcap at runtime when Wireshark calls it?

Many thanks,
Joshua


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Guy Harris<guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao wrote:
>
>> 2) Since I already set the driver to monitor mode, I thought winpcap
>> should return that as the default.
>>    In fact, winpcap doesn't even return DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO as an
>> option. It only gives the default linke types. That's why I wonder
>> whether there is compatibility issue between winpcap and the driver
>> and whether winpcap uses those two OIDs for linktype queries.
>
> WinPcap knows nothing about monitor mode; it's a NDIS 5.x driver, and
> there's no notion of "monitor mode" in NDIS 5.x.  It also has no
> notion of DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO or even DLT_IEEE802_11, as there's no
> notion of a device returning 802.11 headers in NDIS 5.x.
>
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