typecast the iface for scapy recv to bytes array to avoid rare exceptions while trying to sniff using scapy

Change-Id: Id7e45ac04fddb8c2a295e152cc1eab2bcfa252a9
diff --git a/src/test/utils/Channels.py b/src/test/utils/Channels.py
index 84d4921..d755d5b 100644
--- a/src/test/utils/Channels.py
+++ b/src/test/utils/Channels.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
         if cb is None:
             cb = self.recv_cb
         return sniff(prn = cb, count=count, timeout = timeout,
-                     lfilter = lambda p: IP in p and p[IP].dst in groups, iface = self.iface)
+                     lfilter = lambda p: IP in p and p[IP].dst in groups, iface = bytes(self.iface[:15]))
 
     def stop(self):
         if self.streams: