Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] How to analyze the transactions of RPC service s that are located in the same box

[Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to analyze the traffic between different components of our
> software that are located on the same box( analyzing the 
> traffic within the same box source and dest ip addresses are 
> the same).

The problem is that not all Operating Systems allow you to capture
traffic on the loopback interface. A typical example is Solaris.
In some of our tests we deliberately run the two services on
distinct machines in order to capture this sort of traffic.

>  Since we use UDP as the transport level protocol, I have 
> tried "not tcp" as
> filter. This shows all the relevant traffic between different hosts
> but it doesn't show me the traffic within the same box. IS it 
> possible to
> analyze the traffic happening within the same box where
> the source and destination IP addresses are the same using Ethereal.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ram