Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] loopback capture results different between ethereal and tcp

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From: Rufoo <rufoo2001@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:07:49 -0800 (PST)
Since when does ethereal capture traffic to loopback
addresses?

rf
--- Brad Lyon <bradlyon@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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