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  1. Aug 4th, 2000, 09:29 AM #1
    kl899
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    Hi. Despite the fact of being extremely hard to find information, I have found a glimmer of hope for us VB programmers that need to capture incoming packets at the network level. It's a library called "WinPCap" and it provides a DLL to abstract low level NIC calls. Unfortunately all of their documentation is assuming you are using C or C++. However, I was wondering if any of you think it would be possible to use this library from inside VB? Here is the link to the WinPCap site:

    http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/
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  2. Aug 4th, 2000, 12:46 PM #2
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    Thumbs up Why not

    From what I understand, you should be able to use this inside of VB. Just reference the DLL and try making some calls to it. It shouldn't matter what langauge the COM object is written in. You should still be able to use it in VB.
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  3. Aug 4th, 2000, 01:00 PM #3
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    It says it cannot add a reference to the Packet.dll file. Also I cannot manually regsvr32 the Packet.dll file. When you install the WinPcap software, it shows up as a service in the network control panel(i'm running NT4). I tried their test programs that come with the SDK and they all work. Do you still think I can use this software or is it a no go?
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