tcprewrite: Handle loopback for linux cooked capture files (Linux SLL) #204
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When capturing network packets with tcpdump using the "all" pseudo-interface, the resulting capture file is in linux cooked format (linux SLL). Furthermore, some packets might be coming from the loopback device depending on the activity of the machine. In such a case, when trying to use tcprewrite to replace the linux SLL header with an ethernet header, the program fails with the following error:
This pull request address this issue.