- * Some printers want to get back at the link level addresses,
- * and/or check that they're not walking off the end of the packet.
- * Rather than pass them all the way down, we set these globals.
+ * This isn't necessarily in our host byte order; if this is
+ * a DLT_LOOP capture, it's in network byte order, and if
+ * this is a DLT_NULL capture from a machine with the opposite
+ * byte-order, it's in the opposite byte order from ours.
+ *
+ * If the upper 16 bits aren't all zero, assume it's byte-swapped.
+ */
+ if ((family & 0xFFFF0000) != 0)
+ family = SWAPLONG(family);
+
+ /*
+ * Some printers want to check that they're not walking off the
+ * end of the packet.
+ * Rather than pass it all the way down, we set this global.