Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.8.9 and Linux 2.2.16: strange behaviour: FIXED

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:13:38 -0500
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:54:26AM -0500, Fabrizio Ammollo wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After some time, it came to my mind that maybe I should have also checked 
> for
> packets going through the lo interface.. :-(((
> 
> All is OK now, thank you. :-)
> Seriously, thank you for this great program !
> 
> --
> Bye,
>         Fabrizio Ammollo

On linux, you can capture all packets on loopback, but any capture filters
on loopback will most likely fail to capture anything (unless you get lucky)
because of the incorrect way libpcap treats the Linux loopback interface.

--gilbert