Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] loopback capture results different between ethereal and tcp

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 01:06:48 -0800
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:07:49PM -0800, Rufoo wrote:
> Since when does ethereal capture traffic to loopback
> addresses?

Since it first started running on {BSD,Linux,Digital UNIX}.  On those
OSes, you *can* capture on loopback interfaces, even though you can't do
so on some other OSes.

See

	http://www.ethereal.com/media.html

and look at the "Loopback" column.