Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: MS Loopback adapter question

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

you can not capture on loopback on windows.


On 6/24/05, Fernando Barsoba <fbarsoba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> First of all, I apologize in advance for this question. It seems that it 
> has been discussed already (and it seems a controversial topic) but 
> honestly I am not sure about the answer.
> 
> I just installed the Microsoft loopback adapter. I'd like to test 
> packets sent through by Server/Client sockets in C with Ethereal. Can I 
> do that? Ethereal seems to recognize my loopback adapter IP address, but 
> when I do a "ping" on this address, it won't work.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Fernando
> 
> 
> 
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