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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark & loopback

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:10:09 -0600
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:17:32AM -0500, Tennis Smith wrote:

> I run a series of tests via a loopback interface on Fedora 7.  Is 
> there any way to start tshark and have it monitor activity on the 
> loopback, even if traffic is not yet being passed?

You should be able to just start it as tshark -i lo0 and it will wait 
for traffic.


Steve