Packet Sniffer SDK Basics

Packet Sniffer SDK is the most powerful component suite for network packets capturing in the Windows OS family environment, filtering them by BPF (BSD Packet Filter), and packets generating/sending with no preinstalled packet drivers required.

This section explains the purpose of each Packet Sniffer SDK component, shows how to create your own IP filtering application using Packet Sniffer SDK, and shows how to make it just in five steps.

Packet Sniffer SDK components purposes

Packet Sniffer SDK packets processing scheme

How to create an IP filtering application in 5 steps:

1. Initialize Packet Sniffer SDK
2. Retrieve information about network devices
3. Open network device
4. Create BPF filter
5. Capture and process the traffic