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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Npcap 0.04 call for test

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 04:17:57 -0700
On Aug 23, 2015, at 2:55 AM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As AF_INET6 is defined as 23 on the Windows platform:
> ws2def.h(109): #define AF_INET6        23              // Internetwork Version 6
>  Shouldn't code running on that platform, i.e. Wireshark use the appropriate value rather than faking that of another OS?

Only if we want to have to modify tcpdump/WinDump and Wireshark to handle that value.  It currently doesn't, as no platform that supports DLT_NULL uses it.