Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capturing UDP packets between two windows apps

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From: "Philip" <etherphilip@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:48:14 +0200
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From: <neil.punia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:42 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Capturing UDP packets between two windows apps


>
>
> Is it possible to capture packets between to windows programs running on
the
> same computer using Ethereal?
I don't think so, because Ethereal's Packet Capturing Library (e.g. Libpcap
/ WinPcap) can only capture networkpackets. If you are using 2 network
programs on the same computer there aren't any packets generated.
Do a ping on 127.0.0.1 (loopback) and you will see that no packets have been
generated.

> The applications are configured to send to the same IP address but
different
> ports.
why not configurating the applications with 2 diffrent IPs on 2 computers?

> If not Ethereal, is there another program that gives similar filtering
> capabilities, that does capture packets sent through the windows
interface?
>
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