Re: help needed for sniffer in c++

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

akshar SNIFFER wrote:
>   I am writing a sniffer in C++ ,

Then this is a question that belongs in the tcpdump-workers list, not 
the ethereal-dev list, so I'm redirecting it there.

> I have included the pcap.h header file .While compiling i get the following error 
>
> /********************************************************************
> In file included from test.cpp:2:
> /usr/include/net/bpf.h:408: error: previous declaration of `u_int
>    bpf_filter(bpf_insn*, u_char*, unsigned int, unsigned int)' with C++ linkage
> /usr/include/pcap.h:201: error: conflicts with new declaration with C linkage

What OS are you building this on, and what version of libpcap does it 
have installed?
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