Re: Question about "pcap_next()"

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

(Blah blah blah another wrong from line blah blah blah avoid the 
duplicate message detector blah blah blah.)

Kathy Chen wrote:

> When I call 
>     u_char *packet = pcap_next(handle, &header);
> I can get the packet length value, but I can't really
> get the "packet" data (Using printf(..., packet)).

The packet data isn't a text string.  It's raw binary data.  Extract the
separate fields from the raw packet data, and print that.  (See tcpdump
as an example of a program that dissects raw binary packet data.)

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