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

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From: David Santinoli <u235@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:49:59 +0200
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:56:13PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > 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).

I bet this would be quite difficult to autodetect. Maybe adding an
"--enable-lo-workaround" option to the configure script would do...?

Regards,
 David