How to cancel a pcap_sendqueue_transmit?

[kayoub5]

Context

The API pcap_sendqueue_transmit allows for more or less accurate delta time between packets
We have an interactive application where user select a packet, and a bitrate, and the application burst send that packet with the specified bitrate.

This is helpful for load tests of application and embedded devices kernel performance.

In order to send the packet with the specified bitrate, we create a pcap sendqueue that lasts few seconds, with a small delta time between packets.

We offer another interface to user, where user can manually provide multiple packets, and delta time between them, especially helpful for timing attack.

The problem

• Application is interactive, user may request to stop burst transmission at any moment
• The function pcap_sendqueue_transmit have no API to cancel a queue once started
• Using smaller queue was tried, but the jitter of multiple calls to pcap_sendqueue_transmit with the same small queue was too big.
• If user accidentally provide a delta time between packets (for example an hour), they basically dead-lock the application, with no way to recover.

Expected behavior
We are welcome to any way that would allow canceling a pcap_sendqueue_transmit, but officially in the API docs of libpcap/npcap we can't call any function on the same pcap_t handle, while another function call is in progress.