- * The DLT_NULL packet header is 4 bytes long. It contains a network
- * order 32 bit integer that specifies the family, e.g. AF_INET
+ * The DLT_NULL packet header is 4 bytes long. It contains a host-byte-order
+ * 32-bit integer that specifies the family, e.g. AF_INET.
+ *
+ * Note here that "host" refers to the host on which the packets were
+ * captured; that isn't necessarily *this* host.
+ *
+ * The OpenBSD DLT_LOOP packet header is the same, except that the integer
+ * is in network byte order.