Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Sniffing local interface

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From: <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:27:15 +0100
BONIN Antoine (DATACEP)wrote:
> One thing I can't sniff is my local internal interface. Lets explain: I
> would like to sniff IP exchanges between two applications that run locally.
> I'm running W2000, and ethereal does'nt list any 'loopback' interface.Those
> exchanges are not visible sniffing the physical lan interface. What would
> you suggest ?

Capturing loopback is not possible on Windows.
This is a Windows limitation, not due to Ethereal or WinPcap.

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