Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] localhost packets not captured

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From: Diwakar Shetty <diwakar.shetty@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:16:05 +0530
Thanks gerald.....

though it seems strange that a OS like solaris does not have capability to
capture Loopback packets

diwakar

Gerald Combs wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Diwakar Shetty wrote:
>
>
> In order to to see local traffic you would have to capture on the loopback
> interface (lo0).
> Unfortunately Solaris doesn't have that capability.
>
> > Also where can I get the latest ethereal on solaris binaries ?
>
> It sounds like you already have them.  The latest version of Ethereal is
> 0.9.6; Solaris packages for 0.9.6 are available at
> http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/solaris/.