Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] How to capture on localhost

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From: Jerry Talkington <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:42:20 -0700
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 03:05:17PM -0700, Maurice Height wrote:
> Dear Gurus
> 
> I have tried to capture traffic on my PC between a HTTP server also running
> on my PC
> and my browser without success.
> Ethereal works fine for capturing internet data via the filter "tcp port 80"
> on interface: \Device\NPF_GenericNdisWanAdapter.
> 
> However on my local setup I access the server via http://localhost:5000
> and have not captured anything using capture filters like:
> tcp port 5000
> host 127.0.01
> host 192.168.0.1
> 
> My questions are:
> Can local traffic be captured?
> If so, what capture filter do I use?

Nope.  It's a Windows limitation.
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200212/msg00166.html

I'm suprised this isn't in the FAQ...

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