Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] [TCP Previous segment lost] on loopback device

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From: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:37:24 -0700
When capturing packets on the loopback devices, I am seeing the 
message [TCP Previous segment lost] regularly. Also, many packets 
have bad TCP checksums. It seems like the Linux loopback device is 
not very well behaved for packet capturing. Can anyone confirm my 
observations? I'd be very interested in hearing a solution.

Cheers,
Shaun

$ ethereal -v
ethereal 0.10.4
Compiled with GTK+ 2.0.2, with GLib 2.0.1, with libpcap 0.6, with libz 
1.1.4, with libpcre 3.4, without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, with ADNS.
Running with libpcap (version unknown) on Linux 2.6.3-1-k7.