["Michael G. Soulakis" <Mike.Soulakis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> Michael G. Soulakis wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me how to select the loopback interface for packet 
> > capture on Solaris.
>
>
> Step 1: wait for the Solaris source to appear on opensolaris.org.
>
> Step 2: download Solaris source.
>
> Step 3: modify Solaris source so that the loopback device is implemented
> by a DLPI driver.
>
> Step 4. build, test, and debug resulting Solaris source.
>
> Step 5. use tcpdump/snoop/Ethereal/etc. on resulting Solaris system.
>
> Or, to put it another way, that's an intrinsic limitation of the way
> Solaris's network stack works; it's not something a user can work
> around, or even something that Ethereal or libpcap can be changed to fix.
>
> > (does not exist in /dev/lo)
> > lo0 shows up in the interface list,
>
>
> Which interface list?  The one you get from "ifconfig -a", or the one
> you get from Ethereal?

thanks for the response.  It is showing up on Ethereal's interface list.
It also list logical interfaces that cannot be sniffed independently 
(e.g.e qfe0:1 vs qfe0)
but they are all listed in Ethereal's interface list pull-down.

> If it shows up in the one you get from Ethereal,
> that's a bug - it should only show up on OSes that support capturing
> traffic on the loopback device (Linux, various BSDs, Digital UNIX,
> *possibly* AIX, and perhaps a couple of other ones).
Tha

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