Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark & loopback
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From: "Tennis Smith" <tennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:05:53 -0500
That did it. :)  Thanks.
-T

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:02 PM
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark & loopback

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.
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