I meant the former.. and I was afraid you were going to say that.
thanks,
-J
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:05 PM
> To: Jay Chalfant
> Cc: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] capturing loopback packets
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:52:48PM -0500, Jay Chalfant wrote:
> > I just installed WinPcap 2.3 and ethereal 0.9.8 on my Win2k
> sp2 box. I
> > notice that ethereal doesn't capture loopback requests in this
> > configuration. Is there something I can do to make this work?
>
> If by "loopback requests" you mean packets from the machine to itself,
> then, as far as I know, the only thing you could do to make it work
> would be to get the source to Windows 2000 and modify the networking
> code in the kernel to somehow hand loopback packets up
> through NDIS, so
> that WinPcap can get them.
>
> If by "loopback requests" you mean packets going through the Microsoft
> Loopback Adapter, then, if Ethereal can't capture on that device, the
> only thing you could do to make it work would be to modify
> the OS kernel
> source or the Loopback Adapter kernel source.
>
> (I.e., this is, as far as I know, an inherent deficiency in
> the way the
> Windows networking stack works.)
>