Since when does ethereal capture traffic to loopback addresses? rf --- Brad Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I couldn't find this in the FAQ. I'm using 0.9.8 at > the moment on linux > (I'll upgrade tomorrow). I was investigating some > stuff that's using > the loopback interface under short-term heavy load, > and noticed that > ethereal and tcpdump get different results: tcpdump > listed about 3 times > as many packets as got captured with ethereal. > There are no filters or > anything fancy. > > Is this a case of something getting overwhelmed > inside the aux libraries? > > Also - even tcpdump can't keep up with the count of > packets sent as > indicated by /proc/net/dev - I assume this is > related to the same issue. > > TIA. Please feel free to point me at a FAQ or > something obvious I've > missed. > > f > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ethereal-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users
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