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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture interfaces (loopback?)

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:44:05 +0100

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:55 pm, Sttf wrote:
> Then why doesn't ethereal capture from the driver that windows uses,
> like all sniffers?

It does. Windows does not pass that driver looped-back traffic.
It does it elsewhere in the network stack. Probably quite high up.

Which sniffer have you seen this behaviour on?

-- 
Richard Urwin

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