Hello Yang,

With Npcap 0.04-r3 the Npcap Loopback Adapter is again visible and usable as a 
sniffable interface to Wireshark. [😊]


I hope to do more extensive testing later today or tomorrow (especially 
regarding throughput and packet drops).


I have a question regarding the encapsulation type for packets captured on the 
Npcap Loopback Adapter.


Instead of supplying an ethernet header with the mac addresses of all zeros, 
would it make more sense to supply a NULL/Loopback encapsulation type to 
packets captured in the Npcap LoopBack Interface?


I've attached two small 4 packet traces.  One is taken on a Windows 8.1 system 
with the Npcap adapter.  This file has an encapsulation type of ethernet with 
an ethernet header with all zero mac addresses.  The second trace was taken on 
an OS X 10.10.4 system with a NULL/Loopback encapsulation type.  For some fun 
take a look at Wireshark's epan/dissectors/packet-null.c for some interesting 
comments about the magic associated with loopback encapsulation detection.

Take care,

Jim Y.

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From: wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org <wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org> 
on behalf of Yang Luo <hslu...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:08
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Npcap 0.04 call for test

Hi Jim,

The log points to the same issue with Pascal, and please try the latest 
installer at:
https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/yang/NPcap-LWF/npcap-nmap-0.04-r3.exe

Cheers,
Yang


Attachment: os-x.ping-to-loopback.pcapng
Description: os-x.ping-to-loopback.pcapng

Attachment: win8.1-with-npcap.ping-to-loopback.pcapng
Description: win8.1-with-npcap.ping-to-loopback.pcapng

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