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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 27345: /trunk/gtk/ /trunk/gtk/: capt

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:45:41 -0800

On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:03 AM, Stig Bjørlykke wrote:

Is it possible to determine virtual interfaces and loopback interfaces
and have special icons for them?

Loopback interfaces - yes; either look for interface beginning with "lo" ("lo" or "loN"), or, at least on some OSes, look for the IFF_LOOPBACK flag.

Virtual interfaces - what makes an interface "virtual"?