Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark & loopback
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:02:06 -0700
Tennis Smith wrote:


tshark -i lo0

Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous.
Capturing on lo0
tshark: The capture session could not be initiated (SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device).


	...
ifconfig 

	...
lo Link encap:Local Loopback 

I *thought* I'd remembered that it's just called "lo", not "lo0", on Linux.

Try "tshark -i lo" instead.