Ethereal-users: RE: [ethereal-users] capturing traffic on the loopback interface underwindows 98

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From: "Fulvio Risso" <risso@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:42:49 +0200
Hi.
Loopback interfaces are not supported by packet drivers available on
Windows.
Cheers,

	fulvio

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> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 09:36
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> Subject: [ethereal-users] capturing traffic on the loopback interface
> underwindows 98 w/ ethereal?
>
>
> i'm trying to debug an ssh port-forwarding problem [1] under windows
> 98 so i'd like to be able to capture traffic that under un*x would be
> via the loopback interface.  is there a loopback interface under
> windows?  if so, how do i specify tell ethereal to use it?
>
> alternatively, is there some way for me to capture the desired
> traffic?
>
> thanks for any help.
>
>
> p.s. i manually searched the mailing list archives for the past few
> months but didn't find anything.  the htdig searching capabilities
> didn't work for me somehow (no results are displayed on the page).
>
> [1] the fun thing is that the problem appears to manifest itself under
>     f-secure and tera term pro + ssh extension but not under secure crt or
>     mindterm.  actually i suspect the problem is elsewhere on the system
>     but i'd like to be able to grab the raw traffic to make a
> determination.
>