Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Captures of the loop-back driver causes all sorts of problems

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:56:13 -0700 (PDT)
> Of course the skip should be conditioned somehow to the fact that we are
> actually capturing live from loopback;

...and capturing on Linux, with a version of libpcap that doesn't, for
devices of type ARPHRD_LOOPBACK, discard outgoing packets (i.e., a
version of libpcap that doesn't work around this particular botch).