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

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:15:28 -0700
On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:19 PM, Yang Luo <hsluoyb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Npcap 0.04 r7 is released.
> 
> 1) One change is that PCAP_IF_LOOPBACK is set for "Npcap Loopback Adapter" in DLT_NULL mode

It should be set in *both* modes - it's a loopback interface regardless of whether it uses DLT_NULL or DLT_EN10MB headers (or no headers, with DLT_RAW, or any *other* header type).