Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can I capture internal communication?

["Robert J. Mirro" <rmirro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron Peleg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to analyse the communication between several CORBA components.
> For convenience, all these components run on the same computer. However, the
> Ethereal tool does not capture packets that are sent within the local
> machine. Is there a way to configure it (or the pcap infrastructure) to
> capture these messages? I am assuming that such communication does exist and
> just isn't captured (I tried a browser/tomcat connection just to make sure
> it isn't some optimization by the ORB I'm using).
> 


Hello.  I asked almost this exact question last week 
(only it pertained to capturing the conversation between
a webserver and browser running on the same machine),
but no one responded.

If you recieve any offline responses, please forward
them to the list.

Thanks!

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