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

[Fernando Barsoba <fbarsoba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> ronnie sahlberg wrote:
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> > you can not capture on loopback on windows.
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> You *can* capture on that MS loopback adapter (this is *not* the
> 127.0.0.1 interface), but the whole thing is of limited use in windows.
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> I've added some infos to: http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup_2fLoopback
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> Regards, ULFL
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Now it's much clearer, thanks. As I understand, I may well have two 
sockets communicating through port 9877 on the same network interface 
that Ethereal (because of MS Windows limitations) will never catch the 
packets going through them. So, two machines seems to be the only option...

regards,

Fernando