I meant the former.. and I was afraid you were going to say that. thanks,
-J > -----Original Message----- > From: Guy Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:05 PM > To: Jay Chalfant > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] capturing loopback packets > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:52:48PM -0500, Jay Chalfant wrote: > > I just installed WinPcap 2.3 and ethereal 0.9.8 on my Win2k > sp2 box. I > > notice that ethereal doesn't capture loopback requests in this > > configuration. Is there something I can do to make this work? > > If by "loopback requests" you mean packets from the machine to itself, > then, as far as I know, the only thing you could do to make it work > would be to get the source to Windows 2000 and modify the networking > code in the kernel to somehow hand loopback packets up > through NDIS, so > that WinPcap can get them. > > If by "loopback requests" you mean packets going through the Microsoft > Loopback Adapter, then, if Ethereal can't capture on that device, the > only thing you could do to make it work would be to modify > the OS kernel > source or the Loopback Adapter kernel source. > > (I.e., this is, as far as I know, an inherent deficiency in > the way the > Windows networking stack works.) >
