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

From: Yang Luo <hsluoyb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:00:33 +0800
Hi Guy,

Now PCAP_IF_LOOPBACK flag in pcap_if_t struct will be set for "Npcap Loopback Adapter" both for DLT_NULL mode and Fake Ethernet mode.
See Npcap 0.04 r8 at:

Cheers,
Yang

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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).
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