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Diffstat (limited to 'wiretap/wtap.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | wiretap/wtap.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/wiretap/wtap.h b/wiretap/wtap.h index e80d3863e0..f2a71d0e02 100644 --- a/wiretap/wtap.h +++ b/wiretap/wtap.h @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* wtap.h * - * $Id: wtap.h,v 1.103 2002/01/29 09:45:58 guy Exp $ + * $Id: wtap.h,v 1.104 2002/02/01 00:10:03 guy Exp $ * * Wiretap Library * Copyright (c) 1998 by Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> @@ -69,12 +69,15 @@ * 2) a 4-byte header containing the AF_ address family, in * the byte order of the machine that saved the capture, * for the packet, as used on many BSD systems for the - * loopback device and some other devices; + * loopback device and some other devices, or a 4-byte header + * containing the AF_ address family in network byte order, + * as used on recent OpenBSD systems for the loopback device; * * 3) a 4-byte header containing 2 octets of 0 and an Ethernet * type in the byte order from an Ethernet header, that being - * what "libpcap" on Linux turns the Ethernet header for - * loopback interfaces into. */ + * what older versions of "libpcap" on Linux turn the Ethernet + * header for loopback interfaces into (0.6.0 and later versions + * leave the Ethernet header alone and make it DLT_EN10MB). */ #define WTAP_ENCAP_PER_PACKET -1 #define WTAP_ENCAP_UNKNOWN 0 #define WTAP_ENCAP_ETHERNET 1 |