Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] No Localhost packages (on linux)

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Matti Zemack wrote:

> Now on OpenSuse, I can’t get Wireshark to capture Localhost packets.

I.e., you're capturing on the "lo" device (as opposed to, for example,  
"eth0", which won't see any "localhost" packets in the sense of  
packets going to or from "localhost", i.e. 127.0.0.1 or its IPv6  
equivalent)?