Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] excluding loopback from capture?

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:39:15 -0400
At 10:12 PM 9/2/2004, Jason Wei wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm in a class that uses Linux machines and Cisco 2611
>routers.  One problem I get is that some interfaces on
>the routers keep sending out loopback packets.  Is
>there a way to exclude these loopback packets from my
>ethereal capture?  or is there a way to get the
>routers to stop?  Thanks for any help you can provide!


You can use a filter to not display it if you wish.  If this is a lab router, you can also do a "no keep" under the ethernet interface to stop the frames.  But this disables the router from finding out that it lost link.

Hansang