Friday, May 22, 2009

Wireshark and Capturing Local Traffic

Wireshark cannot be used to capture local traffic because the packets never make it to the network interface. They are routed internally, inside of the TCP/IP stack. There are few workarounds listed in the link below.

 

Loopback capture setup

http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Loopback

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