Re: Capture of packets on local machine

Guy Harris <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:20:32 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.ethereal.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Steven Smart wrote:

> I am guessing the traffic must use use the 127.0.0.1 address for local 
> services and doesn't hit the network card,

Yes.

> is this possible to capture local traffic?

It depends on the OS:

	http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Loopback