Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug ugly protocol graph

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:34:03 -0800
Ulf Lamping wrote:
Looks already interesting, e.g. I didn't know we already have a something like a "null" dissector :-)
Arguably one of the worst-named DLT_ values - DLT_RAW is "null" in the sense of having no link-layer header (traffic is all IP), whereas DLT_NULL has a real-live header with a 4-byte BSD address family type indicating the traffic type. 

I guess we could call it "BSD loopback"....