hi,
I got the following error when compiling a packet capture program. I checked it out with lot of people I not getting the problem.please help me .This is the first step in my project work.

[root@CORE-2-02 bin]# gcc testcap2.c
testcap2.c:3: parse error before string constant
testcap2.c:4:29: warning: extra tokens at end of #include directive
In file included from /usr/include/pcap.h:41,
from testcap2.c:4:
/usr/include/sys/time.h:62: parse error before '}' token

this is the code I am trying to complile.I have all the header files installed.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
extern "C" {
#include <pcap.h> }
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/if_ether.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i;
char *dev;
char errbuf[PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE];
pcap_t* descr;
const u_char *packet;
struct pcap_pkthdr hdr;
struct ether_header *eptr;

u_char *ptr;


dev = pcap_lookupdev(errbuf);

if(dev == NULL)
{
printf("%s\n",errbuf);
exit(1);
}

printf("DEV: %s\n",dev);



descr = pcap_open_live(dev,BUFSIZ,0,-1,errbuf);


if(descr == NULL)
{
printf("pcap_open_live(): %s\n",errbuf);
exit(1);
}



packet = pcap_next(descr,&hdr);

if(packet == NULL)
{
printf("Didn't grab packet\n");
exit(1);
}



printf("Grabbed packet of length %d\n",hdr.len);
printf("Recieved at ..... %s\n",ctime((const time_t*)&hdr.ts.tv_sec));
printf("Ethernet address length is %d\n",ETHER_HDR_LEN);


eptr = (struct ether_header *) packet;


if (ntohs (eptr->ether_type) == ETHERTYPE_IP)
{
printf("Ethernet type hex:%x dec:%d is an IP packet\n",
ntohs(eptr->ether_type),
ntohs(eptr->ether_type));
}else if (ntohs (eptr->ether_type) == ETHERTYPE_ARP)
{
printf("Ethernet type hex:%x dec:%d is an ARP packet\n",
ntohs(eptr->ether_type),
ntohs(eptr->ether_type));
}else {
printf("Ethernet type %x not IP", ntohs(eptr->ether_type));
exit(1);
}


ptr = eptr->ether_dhost;
i = ETHER_ADDR_LEN;
printf(" Destination Address: ");
do{
printf("%s%x",(i == ETHER_ADDR_LEN) ? " " : ":",*ptr++);
}while(--i>0);
printf("\n");

ptr = eptr->ether_shost;
i = ETHER_ADDR_LEN;
printf(" Source Address: ");
do{
printf("%s%x",(i == ETHER_ADDR_LEN) ? " " : ":",*ptr++);
}while(--i>0);
printf("\n");

return 0;
}

thanks
regards
cynthia

Remove the extern "C" { before the include of pcap.h and the } after.

When compiling your program, add the option -lpcap to tell gcc to link your program with the pcap library.