Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] WinDump Output

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:11:53 -0700
These questions are probably best asked on the winpcap-users mailing
list:

	http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:00:05AM -0500, Munshi, Shahid K. (Manpower Contract) wrote:
> I am trying to capture "udp" packets across two PC running Windows 2000.
>  I used:
> windump -ne -s100 udp 
> 
> These command line options starts capturing file.  but, When I stopped
> it by pressing CTRL + C ., It shows me number of packets around 1410. 
> But when I looked at stdio screen (Output Window) , Which is DOS prompt
> on windows 2000, The number of packets are around 8.

What *exactly* did WinDump say when it reported about 1410 packets? 
Perhaps it reported "1410 packets received by filter", which means that
the WinPcap driver saw 1410 packets; however, most of them might not
have been UDP packets, and you have a filter of "udp", so, if WinPcap
reports, as the number of packets received by the filter, the number of
packets seen *before* the filtering is done, that number could be larger
than the number of packets it actually prints.