Martin Cooper wrote:
>I just installed Ethereal on Win2K after hearing lots of good things about
>it. It works fine for local/elsewhere traffic and vice versa. However, if
>I'm running a web server on my machine and using a browser on the same
>machine to connect to it, nothing appears to be captured.
It is not possible to capture loopback traffic on Windows with WinPcap. This is a limitation
of Windows.
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200112/msg00145.html
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200112/msg00144.html
Q-12: Does WinPcap support loopback devices?
A: No. Only physical interfaces are supported. This is a limitation of Windows and not of WinPcap.
http://www.datanerds.net/~mike/netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/misc/faq.htm
>I know Microsoft's Network Monitor
>can do this, so I'm assuming I'm just missing some setting for Ethereal.
>
Are you sure that it is working with Network Monitor (and if so, are you using the loopback adapter)?
I have used Microsoft Network Monitor a lot but never seen loopback traffic.
I made some searches with Google, but couldn't find any references indicating that it should
be possible to do this.
Regards,
Martin