Re: Sending a packet to localhost?

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:

> tcpdump/Wireshark will show you the Linux SLL header.

...although that's not the format of the link-layer header on packets  
on the Linux loopback interface; those packets have fake Ethernet  
headers.

(The SLL header is synthesized by libpcap for link layers that either

	1) have a link-layer header type for which there isn't (yet) a DLT_  
value;

	2) don't supply a usable link-layer header (e.g., PPP, which doesn't  
provide such unimportant information as the packet type);

	3) don't necessarily have *a* link-layer header (e.g., the any  
device, which can supply packets from multiple different link-layer  
types).)
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