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

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tennis Smith wrote:

> > tshark -i lo0
> Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous.
> Capturing on lo0
> tshark: The capture session could not be initiated (SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device).

	...

> > ifconfig 

	...

> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

I *thought* I'd remembered that it's just called "lo", not "lo0", on Linux.

Try "tshark -i lo" instead.