Hello,
When the traffic is within the machine... the packets will pass
through the local TCP/IP stack without going through the network
interface... that's why tcpdump/wireshark are unable to see those
packets.
Hope this helps
Abhik.
On Feb 10, 2008 2:17 AM, S <activeco@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I setup reverse proxy (Pound) to listen on standard ports 80 and 443 and
> pipe the data to backend server on the same machine (same IP address),
> to ports 81 & 83 respectively.
> Although everything passes OK, I can't capture any traffic on ports 81
> or 83 either by using tcpdump or wireshark. Capturing data on 80 or 443
> goes without problems.
> Any help here?
>
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